Hi, everybody.
It's Melissa Benoist, and I'm here on the set of Supergirl,
with some of my amazing co-stars on the show.
We're gonna take a fond look back at the last six years of the show.
Please join us.
I mean, it's changed my life, this show, um... It's been a joy.
And seeing the way that this canon and mythology affects people,
and young girls, and the people that look up to our characters,
it's, it's very meaningful.
I would say that... I wasn't originally cast as as the Martian Manhunter.
I was actually just cast as 'Hank' and it was only after the pilot
that I was made the Martian Manhunter.
I could remember going home with a pile of Martian Manhunter comics,
and just reading all of them and thinking, 'this guy's awesome'.
So, I was just really excited to suddenly get this brand new character
and fall into this whole story arc, which has really been great for me,
and I've... I've really, really enjoyed not just playing the character,
but, meeting all these fabulous people,
and also, learning to... directing on this show as well.
- So, it's really been, to me, sort of... - Money!
- It's been money. It's been... - Money!
Well, on the piggyback off of that, you know,
for me, it's like I wore one plaid shirt in season one, and season two, I'm gay.
You know what I mean? It was like...
I had no idea.
And then... gay!
It was three plaid shirts.
- It was three... - He was counting them.
- It was that third. - It's a three step process.
Were they all the same plaid or different plaids?
Different plaid. Different plaid. Yes.
No, it's been, it's been
the greatest experience of my life, my career.
I learned so much about myself
and about working with
such incredible people that are inspiring
and, you know, kick your ass every day
to just be better and just to keep growing.
And, it's been pretty fantastic, also being able to direct,
- Mm-hmm. - Like just something
that we've kind of all been doing since Season one.
But, to really put it on its feet has been an honor and a pleasure.
Yeah, getting to direct on the show
has been a...
- ...real achievement for me. - Next season, next season.
He's directing 701, right?
Well, you see, he was set to, however.
I'm directing the bonus features.
That's in the blooper reel.
I mean, this character for me has, has just been monumental,
and, I mean, I've only been in the business industry for two weeks.
That's why you call it the business industry.
Yeah, listen. I'm young, I'm new, I don't know better.
But, I mean, it's, it's just been the most
incredible experience and getting to work with all of you guys
and getting to learn from you and watch you
and be a part of your directorial debuts, except for Melissa,
um, but I've learned great things.
Um, and getting to bring this character to life
and then getting to bring her into the comics as well,
and just be a part of her journey, and,
build her into something bigger than she originally was
has been just a complete, incredible honor,
- and, I love her very much. - Aww, little dreamer over there.
- Little dreamer. - Little dreamer.
My favorite scene is the scene where
Staz and Melissa do karaoke and sing Africa.
- I think it's, it's magical, - That was fun.
and I... I watched it on repeat,
I love it so much.
I preface this, we, that was, that was a lot of fun,
but it was also kind of, we had kind of, haphazardly kind of figured that out,
because I think both of us assumed we weren't doing the whole song.
And then we ended up doing the whole song...
- We did the whole song. - We did the whole song.
So, I was like, okay, just, if you don't know the words...
- We said, "Let us sing Africa, Toto." - No.
- We knew the chorus. - It was wonderful.
Right, so then,
I was just like, "Just mime out what you remember."
You sounded beautiful.
- It was a lot of fun. - It sounded beautiful.
And, you know, both of us come from like, a musical background.
So it's really nice that, at any point, get to kind of find a way
to kind of ah, combine all the mediums of art.
So, it was really fun. I really liked it. It was fun.
- It was always fun when we did karaoke. - It was really fun.
- Yeah. - Especially Carl Lumbly.
Yeah.
- Singing Elvis. - No, I was going to say that
that's definitely one of the standouts.
And I was kind of opposed to doing a karaoke episode
because it was like "my episode",
and I read the first page and I'm like,
"Of course, it's freaking karaoke. They're gonna make me sing."
And, um, and then it turned out to be one of my, one of the most fun bits
because everybody, well, most people, had a number,
I mean, Mehcad sang like his own song, which was super badass.
Yeah.
Chris over there who's actually a really good singer,
was belting out...
I was trying really hard.
Your voice cracked and that was...
Oh, yeah, that was fun. That was a good one.
And then everybody else is doing like their little bits.
It was, it was really fun to watch people out of their...
- Carl Lumbly one day. - Chyler's over there, crying.
It's also like...
It's also just nice to flip the genre on its head a little bit.
You know, we're playing superheroes and all these stakes.
And all of a sudden, we get to kind of explore
the musical aspect of creativity.
My favorite scene that we ever did is in my favorite episode.
and it was Slavers' Moon, which is in Season two,
- I can't remember which episode it was. - Ah, yes.
Nine.
In the quarry, things were- it was pouring rain.
Let's hope this thing works,
It was Kevin Smith's first episode and he ordered, like, a...
- the bacon truck. - ...bacon truck.
- All of us were just eating... - Bacon wrapped bacon.
- Bacon wrapped bacon bread with, like... - Wow.
- ...cheese and... - Bacon grease.
- goodness. - It was pouring rain.
- Pouring rain... - I was not there that day.
We're playing game in a random school bus...
- Yes - And...
- Sounds like Burning Man. - Sounds sort of Star Warsy.
It was so Star Warsy, and it was like a buddy adventure.
- Planet 51 ARC B. - That's Maaldoria.
People that were there, the aliens. What were they called?
Slaving is a big business on Maaldoria.
Maaldoria.
- It was! - Of course, you remember.
In Season two, I had to eat ten pancakes at once.
Thank you.
Hey, do you want syr...?
- That was probably... - That was your stunt?
Stunt?
That is a stunt!
- Stunt eating? - Stunt eating, yes.
Ten at one time?
Yeah, it was, It was a big stack of pancakes,
and I was like, "Oh, this is going to be so funny."
And then my jaw went like...
That, and also when you ate the pizza.
- Oh yeah, I did that... - You need to start eating
- like a normal person. - Apparently, yeah.
- Apparently it was... - What happened with the pizza?
It was a big stack of pizzas.
- Oh, the big stack of pizzas? - And he kept saying...
Okay, Chris, you got to stop eating the pizza because we don't have enough.
Oh, yeah, they didn't make enough pizzas. They made like, two pizzas,
and I was like eating three per take.
Yeah, I had a pizza scene this season,
and I was like, "Maybe I'll eat the whole pizza."
And someone was like, "Chris already did that."
- That's so Season four. - Yeah.
We do have a fantastic stunt team.
- Yeah, we do. - They're so amazing!
Give it up for Simon Burnett.
- Just the whole team of just being... - Absolutely.
- ...really, really fantastic. - Yeah.
I got to spend about eight hours in a water tank.
- Which was... - Yeah, that looked fun.
- ...something else. - How pruney were you?
I was so pruney.
I remember doing a stunt this season, actually.
And, um, me being over eager, as always.
And, uh, letting my ADHD run riot,
I spoke to Jesse and the directors and I'm like, "Please let me do my stunt."
Let me, let me be a part of this.
You know, mind you our stunt people are amazing.
Um, and, sure enough, they let me. And I have to save this child,
and I go grab the child.
- Yeah. - Our child?
No, not your child. It was actually
Simon Burnett, our stunt coordinator and director on one of these episodes.
He... we got his son hired to do the stunt with me.
I have to grab him and shield him,
protect him from the, from the shattering glass.
You know, hero William. All going great
and I'm like, you know, I'm like "No!" and I'm running,
and I charge at him and I grab him.
And when I go to grab him, I being overzealous as always,
roly poly legs over, just,
- just like that. - Did you harm the child?
- No, child's obviously fine. - Simons son.
- He's fine. - He's obviously fine.
- He rolled out of it like, like that. - I rolled out of it like a genie.
But I looked ridiculous.
And of course, there was press or fans or paparazzi
filming this moment.
So, if, and the next morning,
I'm like, "I wonder if anyone spotted my little mishap."
And sure enough,
you're just, the only take that someone put online is just me.
And then Chyler, being the consummate professional, still runs up.
She runs up and does her move still like, "I'm a superhero!"
Meanwhile, I'm like... Oh, it was great!
I hate that I missed that.
Yeah, I'll send you it, I'll send you it. It's on Instagram.
The craziest day I've had stunt wise,
was on the green screen and the wires, and me in the harness, hanging.
And I was with Tyler Hoechlin, playing Superman,
and he was like, "I'm good, I'm good."
And I called it, and I was like, "I'm done."
And I walked off set like this.
I couldn't walk.
- Hard work, ladies and gentlemen. - It's hard.
It is fun when you're being carried by Supergirl.
- That was... - I was carried almost all of you.
- It's lovely. - Twice.
- It's quite comfortable. - Twice.
It's hilarious. I'm like, "come on."
- I carried you and Jeremy both... - Yes.
- ...at one time. Yeah. - Yes.
There was nothing, nothing more emasculating than that.
It was great, though.
- It was hilarious, yeah. - I wish you could,
I wish you could have carried me when I could have, like, looked up at you.
But I was like, a zombie or something.
- Just in a little blankets, like... - I think I was awake.
That was the one where you guys were, like, mind controlled, right?
- Was it that one? - That was me, that was me.
That was, you did it too.
- We both did it? - No, yeah, we both did it.
- I was mind controlled. - We both were mind controlled?
I was also mind controlled.
- I was mind controlled. - Yes, you were.
- Did you fall off the roof? - Raise your hand
- if you've been mind controlled. - No, we jumped, we jumped off...
We jumped off his...
On the sets?
We jumped out a window as mind controlled.
Hold on, yeah. Who's been mind controlled?
- Yeah. - No, no, no, on the show.
Right.
One of the funniest things that we did
aside from just being insane all the time,
- Mm-hmm. - especially this one.
Melissa, just like dancing and frolicking all the time,
- Yeah. - ...was, cloth magic.
- Cloth magic. - Has that made it into the world yet?
- No, we gotta bring it... - Yeah, I think I posted it.
Can I get context? I don't even know what cloth magic is.
Cloth Magic is a spin off show that never quite happened, uh...
It was like cape tricks that we did,
where he would, like, whip the cape around someone, you know.
As a weapon, he would use his cape as a weapon
and is a grappling hook sometimes.
We made a magic... an instructional magic video
- Based on the dialog. - Based on Cloth Magic.
And basically we would just put it,
put either of their capes up, and then pull 'em down and something
would happen behind them,
and that there was one...
Jeremy would turn into Chyler or...
Yeah, we would turn into each other,
like our legion rings would switch fingers,
or like, there was one, there was one in the DEO,
where, where Melissa and Chris came and
they put their capes up and then they pulled it down,
and David's just like this on the table.
There was some good ones.
What I think is the funniest moments
are any time David forgets his line on set.
It's the best!
- Yes. - It's, it's the confidence in which...
It's the confidence in which he hits his mark... and line.
Or, or when he's directing, which is understandable.
He's directing an episode, and he's also in the scene
but forgets that he has the first line of the scene.
So, if you know David, the way he directs is
there's this lot of energy, so he'll be like, "All right, that's it,
keep that energy, keep that energy, all right,
and... action!"
Line.
But the single most reliable shot you can get, in the entirety
- of Supergirl... - The money.
- ...is the money! - The money.
- Right there. - Right there, on the couch.
You must have internal dialogue, David.
I mean, every day is really funny. I...
I'm like, with you.
I didn't really work, I haven't really worked with uh...
- everyone, all at once and... - I'm Chris.
I know, that's what I'm saying...
- We actually, literally just met now. - We just met.
Um, but I'm always on with Jon Cryer and Matt Baram
who are both hysterical and probably, actually the fun-
the funniest moment I had.
I mean, I hope that one of these makes it, makes it in.
But like, there's this super intense scene
where Nyxly meet Lex Luthor for the first time and she's given him
what for because he's like, "You're just like my dad."
- And, uh... - Been there.
and, you know, I'm like, tearing up and all the things.
And Matt Barnes, who plays Mitch on the show, who is
- hilarious. - So funny.
He's so funny.
Hold onto your jeggings sister.
You've got company.
He had this one line when he makes an entrance and it's just like,
basically, "... oh, sorry,
what's Lex Luthor doing here?"
But every single take he would be like,
"I just tried a milkshake for the first time."
"Oh, sorry, what's that? Sorry, I got a parking ticket on..."
It was just like, and I would like be, like, looking at Lex
with like, my eyes watering,
and then I would turn around and just break.
Every time. Every time, it was just like...
Oh, the best thing was in, was in your episode, right?
We were, we had just gotten out of the shield or whatever.
And I go up and I have my dream glass
ready to shoot him. I walk up to him and he goes,
"I had a dream glass last night."
- It was... - Dream glass.
One last funny thing.
I auditioned to play James Olsen.
I auditioned for James Olsen.
- Did you really? - When I was 24-25.
Funny thing is, I auditioned for Supergirl, so...
- I thought I could do anything. - This is so funny.
- I thought I could do anything. - Triggered, triggered.
Yeah, yeah.
I feel like we just missed a jam from Katie
that she auditioned to play Alex.
I had completely forgotten that I put a tape down for Alex.
- No way! - ...till you said that.
Oh, God! Everybody hold on...
There was a little girl who is actually a daughter of one of our crew members.
- Oh, yeah. - When she met me, she went,
"I have a question.
Is your belt attached to your skirt or your shirt?"
No, it's Liston's daughter.
She just can't say her R's yet.
Which one was it attached to?
It's not attached...
- What's the answer? - But actually now, I really wanna know
- the answer to that question. - It wasn't attached to anything.
Cloth magic.
It was a floating belt.
Well...
How did it stay on?
- What? - How did it stay on? Velcro?
That's, I wore so many belts on this show
that we're like top sticked to pants that had no belt loops
- So just taped to the waist? - Yes.
They love a taped belt.
- Movie magic guys. Taped to the waist. - Cloth magic.
We had a great moment, um...
We did a Comic Con in Chicago and really had the-
the line for people to come through and get autographs and whatnot.
And there was a family.
This woman came through with her two daughters and, one was...
- Oh, yeah. - ...you know, her biological daughter,
and then another, the other was adopted.
And it was such a wonderful moment because they looked at the both of us
just saying, "You embody exactly like what we have in our house,
and we don't never get to see that."
And to see, like, a healthy
family dynamic like that especially, you know.
And the young girl said, "Like me being adopted,
coming to the family feeling like, I was, like I belonged."
It meant so much. That was, that I remember was really, really special.
One thing I remember in terms of fan interaction, a friend of mine,
when I was kind of growing up, I didn't have much of a good sort of background.
So good, good friends would bring me in,
take me in, kind of put a roof over my head.
And one of, one of my friend's fathers actually ended up watching Supergirl
because he, uh, would read the comics and I didn't get to,
didn't get to see him as he was dying of cancer
because I was working, didn't have enough money.
But he would be watching me on the show,
and when he passed, I called the family,
And I said, you know, "I'm sorry I couldn't be there."
And they're like, "You know what, he felt like he got to see you
- because he watched the show." - Aww.
And I didn't even know, right. I didn't actually find out until he passed.
And with this show, and I thought the same thing.
I never, I never assumed that people of our age wrote a kind of... thank you
...watch this show. So to kind of, to be able to represent what I love doing
and be able to kind of, connect that to my personal life.
That was kind of, a wonderful kind of fan interact...
to find out someone who I loved, was a fan.
I get a lot of letters from girls and I know this sounds, saying that they,
until they saw Lena Luthor on TV, they didn't think, was it
okay for girls to be studying science.
And there's a lot of girls who were like,
"And I'm now in my fourth year in engineering,
"and I have you to thank for that, and the show to thank for that."
And it's such a small thing, it seems like.
But that's the beginning of a whole new life for them that
they didn't think was possible, because of watching the show.
- You know, I'll always... - Being able to see
- see yourself and see options for... - Yeah.
- ...yourself is really, really powerful. - Absolutely.
This is formative for a lot of people out there,
in different, so many different ways,
depending on who they connect with the most in the show.
And I think that's what's so great.
There are so many different characters on the show.
There's so many different people that they can connect with, you know.
And there's so much opportunity for them to see themselves...
- Totally. - ...on a show.
I mean, I feel like we have to talk about when you meet small children
who think that you're really a superhero and think that all of your powers
and everything you do is real
and then getting to navigate the conversation there,
like, I just talked to a little girl on set a little while ago
and she was like, "Make a shield!"
"Do it!" And I was like, "I can't."
And she's like, "Why?"
"I'm tired...
Because I'm Dreamer."
It gets sticky for me because then they'll watch me jump
and then just...
go back to the ground. Like, I have to jump.
They're so disappointed.
Guys, I get that there's still days where I see Melissa in the suit,
- and I'm like, "That's Supergirl." - Yeah!
Like it still happens, or I see any of you guys all dressed up as superheroes
and, you know, I still get a moment where I'm like, "This is..."
- Yeah. - Yeah, because it's like iconic.
We have a, Chyler and I...
the young girl Mila, who's five,
who plays our daughter...
- She's so cute. - She's so cute.
This house needed a guardian angel and now we have you.
We had a scene in the dive bar and we were supposed to clear
and then Mel had a whole stunt thing,
and I look over and Mila's doing all of the power moves
- that Mel's doing at the same time. - That's so cute.
And I just saw her shoulders go back and her get more confident.
And it was like the first time seeing a little girl, in real time,
physically change, watching Supergirl.
- And then that same little girl, - Are you going to say it?
Says
- I was like... - We have this...
We have this stunt stuff and we're laying on gravel
and we've just saved her and she says...
- Wasn't it first, before she said this? - Say it.
So she goes, "I'm a good person. How did I end up on these rocks?"
Because we're like doing these stunts
and then she keeps moaning.
I come down and we've been up and down on the rocks,
and I just lay down. She looks over at me and she's like,
- "You're too old for this." - "You're too old for this."
- I was like, "You're right." - Supergirl versus us,
is a different experience.
And you said, "No, I am a finely aged cheese."
We do really long days, sometimes,
and you get kind of punchy at the end of the day.
And my favorite times, always on set, is when David starts to corpse.
And then this just infectious, and this corpse, he starts laughing.
- You say that over here? - Growing up, I think.
- Corpse means like, dead. - No, no, we say,
that's what we say. Corpse laughing, laughing, right?
- Yeah. - LuthorCorpse.
Do you get the giggle?
But he gets it, and then you're just gone, and then everybody's gone
for a good five or ten minutes and you can't bring it back.
Yeah, that's what I'll miss.
I'll miss the laughter.
I'll miss dancing with you,
dancing with everyone, I danced with everyone.
- You've never danced with me. - Yeah, yeah, I'll miss the people.
You know, um, you guys got a few more years than I did,
- and... it's... - You're calling us aged cheese?
Yes, absolutely. No, I think it's...
It's nice to work with a bunch of people who really care about the work
and you care about the craft, and...
genuinely don't let their success go to their heads.
And it's just nice to work with a bunch of people who really care.
And who are nice. And, yeah, I'm going to miss the people.
- I just carry my - I'll also, endlessly...
miss being impressed by Melissa looking at a two page scene
in a monologue just knowing it. She's just like, "Yeah, I got it."
And you're like... It's, it's that's a superpower.
That is a real superpower.
Rain Mel, Rain Mel, it's Rain Mel, you know.
Julie, what are you gonna miss?
- Yeah? - Well... well,
You hate me now.
Oh, yeah, this steamy, steamy set, um...
I think I'm with Staz, I got to work with...
very special people, and I think I'll miss you guys the most.
I think, like you said, the collaboration is really great and...
and it's, yeah, I think the friendships is what you miss.
Even if it's hard sometimes here, like there's gonna be moments,
like two months from now, three months from now, and you go,
- "That's not going to happen again." - Mm-hmm.
And I can just, I can tell you straight up, like
having been gone a year, you miss each other.
- Yeah. - You miss each other.
The one thing about being- having such transient job,
where you're all kind of, we're all kind of glorified gypsies, right?
We're always moving on and making these wonderful connections,
and having these wonderful experiences, whether they're professional
or personal, and then all of a sudden they shatter into a thousand pieces
and you know, you get to kind of, get fragments of it from there on.
You know, I hope we get to,
I really do. I hope we all get to work together,
whenever, other than you, in any capacity, and yeah.
Love you guys so much, I'm gonna miss this, it's been a pleasure.
And we've also had, you know, fabulous crew.
- Oh, my God, yes! - Yes!
It has been lovely to work with a family,
a real family type, group of people that kind of support each other.
- That's been, I'll definitely miss that. - Mm-hmm, yeah.
And you know what, I do think I'll miss playing a superhero.
Yeah?
When enough time has gone by
and I'm, you know, I have some energy.
Who's been mind controlled?
I got my tinfoil hat. I don't know what you're talking about.
Hello, everyone.
What camera are you people looking at?
I'm like, cross eyed, trying to look at all of them.
Hello, everyone.
When I was growing up, and I, you know, I, I, I...
God, I... So, um, I, yeah, wow, give me one second.
On second take, line, line, line?
Why are you smiling on both sides of your teeth?
Wow!
My chair keeps breaking.
I've literally been in this set, the entire season.
I have never left CatCo.
We had a whole scene.
Where were we?
- Not here. - Oh, right!
- It was last week! - Yeah, it was last week!
Wow!
I'm gonna miss, uh, the green skin.
I was going to ask you if you were.
I mean, you're still wearing it.
I'm never taking it off.
And he wasn't even on set today!
You're like Keanu Reeves with the bus, so you just fell under it.
I will take it with me, to my grave.
To my cheesy grave.
- To my Gorgonzola grave. - Funniest thing.
Gorgonzola grave.
Thank you, Super Fans!