Sirens
You know her from House of the Dragon, James Gunn found her through House of the Dragon, but actress Milly Alcock remains something of an unknown quantity for most viewers. She has been cast as the DCU’s Supergirl, who will both appear in this summer’s Superman and then be one of the first DC characters to get her own movie immediately, and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is already filming.
Alcock has appeared in seven total episodes of House of the Dragon playing a young Rhaenyra Targaryen before being replaced by Emma D’Arcy as her older counterpart, reappearing only in a hallucinatory Daemon dream sequence. Alcock starred in a few shows before landing her big HBO break, but now she has her longest, most high-profile part yet outside of HotD.
That would be the Netflix series Sirens, which held the service’s #1 spot briefly, in which Alcock stars opposite The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy with Kevin Bacon and Julianne Moore also starring.
It’s five hour-long episodes which feature Alcock as the devoted assistant slash almost-daughter of Julianne Moore’s impossibly rich high society figure, obsessed with saving birds and leading what may be a cult. A cult that her sister, played by Fahy, attempts to rescue her from.
House of the Dragon
It’s a more modern role for Alcock compared to House of the Dragon, and she gets an enormous amount of screentime as the co-lead of the series. This is the first time we get a look at her American accent (she is Australian) which she will no doubt be using in her Supergirl movie. I mean, I suppose it’s possible she doesn’t, but that would be sort of odd.
Alcock was as standout in House of the Dragon where James Gunn admitted that was the first time he noticed her, which was likely true of general audiences. From Sirens, I think it’s a good preview of showing a different side of Alcock than we saw in her Game of Thrones spin-off. Two sides of the same actress that’s about to have one of the highest-profile roles in a brand-new superhero universe.
I think that most of the rest of the cast of the upcoming Superman are known quantities from Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane to Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor. The one exception I would say here is…Superman himself, David Corenswet, who I would say is probably even less known than Alcock who now has both HotD and a #1 Netflix show under her belt. I can’t even point to a singular role of his that is on the same level. The last we saw him was in a supporting part in…Twisters? Again, despite a lot of roles, in the past 10 or so years, he’s still pretty unknown. That’s about to change.
So yeah, I recommend Sirens as a decent drama but also a showcase for Alcock’s talents who is great there. We’ll see how she fares as Supergirl this summer.
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