The new Supergirl has already flown straight into the usual new superhero movie storm. There is box office chatter, franchise second-guessing and plenty of online debate about whether the 2026 calendar release’s take on Kara Zor-El works. Some fans are picking the movie apart, and after a $37 million domestic opening, even DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has acknowledged the film did not open where the studio hoped. But Helen Slater knows a little something about what happens when a Supergirl movie does not land the way everyone wanted and she has some thoughts about the newest DC movie release.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress who played Kara in the 1984 Supergirl offered a much warmer response to Alcock’s version than some of the online pile-on:
