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'Supergirl' Star Goes the Full Rachel Zegler?

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Step right up, folks, and pick your meme for the Supergirl promotional push.

"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em." (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)

Or

"You sure about that? You sure about that?" (Tim Robinson)

Yes, the next DC superhero film is just weeks away, and the film's star is doubling down on the project's marketing message. Star Milly Alcock is a victim of the Patriarchy, but she's fighting back!

Previously, the actress gave a tone-deaf interview to Vanity Fair, where she claimed that male viewers were attacking her for being a woman. She previously starred in "House of the Dragon" and reflected on that experience.

It definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on ... We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies. I can’t really stop them. I can only be myself.

Here we go again.

Social media and cynical YouTube stars pounced and seized on the comments, and rightly so. She's not a victim. She's a beautiful young woman whose career is going quite well, thank you very much.

If a few online knuckleheads commented on her figure or overall beauty, how is that consequential? And how could anyone crave stardom and not realize there will always be basement-bound keyboard warriors eager to weigh in on every aspect of an actor?

It comes with the territory. Sad but true.

Many an eye rolled after that interview went viral, but surely Alcock wasn't going to double down on targeting the film's potential fan base? The new film lacks the cache of the Superman franchise, and even that 2025 reboot proved less dynamic than some expected.

Surely she just did.

And, in the process, Alcock ignored how Snow White actress Rachel Zegler lit the Internet ablaze by mocking her film's source material, going the Full Woke and, later, attacking anyone who voted for President Donald Trump.

Is that next for Alcock? Who knows?

For now, she's doubling down on the blowback from her Vanity Fair comments, courtesy of Variety. "You're proving my point," she claimed in the new interview.

First, she plays the Feminist Victim Card.

I guess women know that this is just how it’s always been, unfortunately.

Yes, an actress who got an early jump on a Hollywood career is now about to star in one of the biggest movies this summer. Pass the hat, gents, she's got it rough. (Imagine how many unemployed starlets would kill to get this role?)

Next, she turns on Christians by directly calling them out as part of the Troll Army.

“And it’s from a lot of people whose profiles have no photo, who are burner accounts. Or someone’s name and then ‘Dad of four, Christian,’ which is hilarious to me. But I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? If you’re pissing the right kind of people off, you’re doing OK.”

And, of course, media outlets are rushing to her defense. If that sounds familiar, it should. It's precisely what happened during the "Lady Ghostbusters" rollout of 2016.

The creative team behind the film played the Victim and Feminist Card. And guess how that turned out? Ghostbusters cost its studio a reported $70 million.

Ouch.

Supergirl flies (or potentially limps) into theaters June 26.

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David Strom 3:30 PM | May 21, 2026
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