Melissa Benoist Chats Waco & Supergirl with W Magazine
Melissa Benoist sat down with W Magazine to talk about her new show, Waco. While sitting with the magazine, Melissa also talked the difference between her Waco character, Rachel and Supergirl, the shift in Hollywood, and so much more. Highlights can be found below.
On what drew her to wanting to star in Waco: “When my managers said the word Waco, immediately I remembered. There were a few sensationalized events in the beginning of the ‘90s that I vividly remember where everyone was glued to the TV, and Waco was one of them, so that peaked my interest. Then when I spoke to [the directors], the Dowdle brothers, who are fantastic and compassionate people, and they told me what their vision was and how they wanted it to be this gray area where people were able to make up their own minds about really happened and how they felt about it, that was very much a draw for me. After that, I fought pretty hard to play Rachel.”
On the difference between Rachel and Supergirl: “They are different, and obviously they have extremely different circumstances and they are in extremely different worlds. But Rachel is perhaps even stronger than Supergirl. Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day. Rachel is stronger because she is dealing with all of these circumstances that aren’t normal, for lack of a better term, and are sometimes not palatable to what you would call a quote unquote normal life. What she went through in the FBI siege is unimaginable.”
You can check out her full interview here. Waco premiered last night, January 24 on Paramount Netowrk. Did anyone tune in last night? What did you think?
Source: W Magazine