Milly Alcock Teases Kara Zor-El’s Supergirl 2026 Ending & Character Adjustments

Kara Zor-El has fairly the journey forward of her in 2026’s Supergirl, and Milly Alcock has teased a significant revelation that may come on the finish of the film. The DCU’s Supergirl is slated to premiere on June 26, 2026, following the “flawed” and cynical Kara in a darkish, cosmic voyage after Alcock’s character made her debut this summer time on the finish of James Gunn’s Superman.

Although the precise timeline of Supergirl in regard to 2025’s Superman continues to be unclear, there’s one factor we all know for certain: Kara Zor-El has no intention of being a hero firstly of the 2026 film. Supergirl‘s trailer reveals the story kicks off with Kara celebrating her twenty third birthday as she travels throughout varied planets with crimson suns to inhibit her powers. Nevertheless, over the course of the movie, which director Craig Gillespie confirms goes to “darkish” locations for Kara, her outlook on turning into Supergirl will change.

In the course of the December 7 press convention for DC Studios’ Supergirl Digital World Teaser Trailer Launch, which I attended on behalf of ScreenRant at CCXP in Brazil, James Gunn moderated a Q&A with star Milly Alcock and director Craig Gillespie. One query requested Alcock what Kara’s favourite a part of being Supergirl is, which the actress and director responded to with broader assessments of her story, together with teases about why she actually turns into Supergirl within the film’s ending:

Milly Alcock: For Kara, what’s one of the best half about being Supergirl? I believe they will discover out after they end watching the movie on the very finish.

Craig Gillespie: I do not suppose she thinks there is a better part.

Milly Alcock: No. Yeah, I am simply going to say that.

James Gunn: She may like flying.

Milly Alcock: Yeah, but it surely would not be like that is why she’s tremendous cool. I interpreted the query as her having to step up into the position of being a hero.

James Gunn: Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Milly Alcock: Why I believe the tip of possibly…

James Gunn: What about the place she begins although?

Craig Gillespie: I believe she’s doing every thing to not be Supergirl.

Milly Alcock: She does not need to be a hero, till the tip of the film, then she’s like, “I’ve to be this.” That is why I stated that.

Seemingly very totally different from Supergirl’s drunk cameo in Superman, Alcock confirms the tip of 2026’s Supergirl will discover Kara in a spot the place she’s embracing the tasks and duties of being a hero. In accordance with Supergirl‘s star, Kara will imagine that she “has” to be a hero when lastly getting into that position, and the upcoming movie will stroll us via the damaging journey that leads her to that call.

In contrast to Clark Kent, who fell into being a hero and savior with comparatively extra ease on Earth, Alcock’s character has way more “baggage” and “demons” that she’s preventing on her path to formally turning into Supergirl. As Kara says in Supergirl‘s teaser trailer, whereas Clark needs to see the nice in individuals, she “sees the reality,” which defines the core of their variations in accepting utilizing their powers to tackle the burden of being a hero.

Whereas Alcock has confirmed that Kara will, certainly, embrace turning into Supergirl within the 2026 DCU film’s ending, the actress will not reveal the circumstances of what precisely adjustments her place on assuming that position. Nevertheless, it is clear that the Kara we meet in the beginning of Supergirl will not be the identical because the character we see within the movie’s closing act, and whether or not that is due to the various villains she goes up towards, tragedies she faces, or twists she’s confronted with stays to be seen subsequent summer time.