A few days ago, Milly Alcock flew from Kyoto to Los Angeles after finishing production on a new movie. Then, after a fitting, she traveled to Las Vegas to do some press and appear onstage as part of DC Studios’ CinemaCon presentation for “Supergirl.” She’d gotten one hour of sleep.
“So my jet lag is like —” Alcock makes her eyes into slits. “And that’s why I’m very out of it in all those interviews.”
Today, it’s “Supergirl” we’re here to discuss, a movie neither of us has seen. When I tell her right away that I haven’t gotten to screen it — a rarity for a cover story interview — and that I’m slightly abashed, she says, conspiratorially, “Neither have I!”
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Alcock’s range as an actor is evident to me though. I’ve watched her play the headstrong, determined, high-born Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” as well as that character’s opposite: Simone in Netflix’s 2025 limited series “Sirens,” whose Lilly Pulitzer clothes cover up a scrappy social climber who’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants.
