The lead female heroine in a comic adaptation TV show needs to be attractive, Melissa Benoist isn't even average, not to
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justanicknamed — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 07:55 PM)
I get what you are saying, but quite often an actresses beauty detracts from her performance when she's supposed to be taken seriously.
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knightfall182 — 10 years ago(March 15, 2016 02:33 PM)
Definitely not ugly at all, don't know what people are saying. However, I always imagined Supergirl to be sexy, hot, a goddess not plain or average like Melissa Benoist is. Someone like Laura Vandervoort definitely fit the part look-wise, however I do believe Melissa Benoist is a better actress.
Yup.
She's basically the female Grant Gustin.
Vandervoort is more in the league of someone like Amell.
But this is a feminist show. Plain Jane Benoist's casting is in line with that. -
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mistersparkle — 9 years ago(April 27, 2016 01:38 PM)
Benoist is a better (appearance wise) Supergirl than Vandervoort was. That nose on Vandervoort. She's not ugly, but that's not a nose the girl of steel should be spouting.
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pantherfan99 — 10 years ago(December 24, 2015 06:55 PM)
They wanted a Plain Jane for the female audiences to relate to.
So true and don't forget they wanted a hot guy for her to lust after
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wdbehg17 — 10 years ago(February 08, 2016 02:04 PM)
knightfall182 posted
She's too average for Supergirl.
But guess what that's what CBS wanted.
They didn't want a chiseled godly model type.
They wanted a Plain Jane for the female audiences to relate to.
Well that's stupid. That's like casting a regular-looking guy to play Thor so that plane Joe male audiences can relate to him.
This is so stupid. Superheroes are SUPPOSED to be impossibly good-looking. This really was a dumb move. -
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knightfall182 — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 01:27 PM)
You could doll most average girls in makeup, like they do for her as SG, and they could look like her version of Supergirl.
Benoist doesn't have supermodel or stunning/outworldly looks.
She looks like a plain jane. Hence why she looks like many of the cosplayers who dress up as SG.