Actress Melissa Benoist goes up, up and away as Supergirl

By Michael Idato
Updated November 26 2015 - 1:09am, first published 12:15am
Melissa Benoist says she feels transformed when she has the Supergirl outfit on.
Melissa Benoist says she feels transformed when she has the Supergirl outfit on.

In taking on a character like Supergirl, there is a vast library of comic book history, and then there is Helen Slater's interpretation in the 1984 feature film. Where do you begin?
Obviously that's a daunting feeling, to arrive at a point where this is a character that's so developed and so many people already love. So there's responsibility and I arrive wanting to just stay true to a lot of that. And what I want to bring is that I love her humanity even though she is an alien. I love that she really has a lot of discovering to do, and growth, and makes mistakes. I think she's so relatable and I just want to stay true to that.