And she thought her life was complicated with one alien coworker…

As the human sister of the show’s titular hero, it would have been easy for Supergirl’s Alex Danvers to have been relegated to plotlines revolving around family drama and romance and to serve as an easy damsel-in-distress for Kara. So kudos to both the show’s producers and actress Chyler Leigh for not going the traditional route and instead crafting a non-superpowered character who is every bit her sister’s equal.

Serving as a top secret agent in the clandestine Department of Extranormal Operations (D.E.O.), Alex has long kept her sister grounded and in control, while also working to subdue the alien criminals who escaped from the Phantom Zone when Kara landed on Earth. She’s a scientist, but don’t mistake Alex for a lab rat. As we’ve seen in recent episodes, she can kick butt with the best of them and has recently caught the eye of the enigmatic Maxwell Lord. But how will she cope now that she’s not just working alongside an alien, but reporting to one as well?







So what do you have to say about the Martian Manhunter reveal?

Wow, let’s dive right in. It’s so exciting. We don’t really get a lot of information right off the bat. I feel like every episode we’re learning a lot more about our characters, about each other, but when that was revealed, David ’s reaction was just like…he’s like a kid in a candy store. It’s really amazing. He’s so strong and such a calm, cool guy. But then he put on the suit for the first time the other night. We had a scene out in the desert. I’ve never seen a grown man make a noise like that. It was like “Eeeeeeeeee!” I came out and I was like, “Whoa, that just does not match the face!”

It’s so exciting. I’m like his number one creepy stalker fan. I compliment him all the time because he’s incredible. But yeah, Martian Manhunter, J’onn J’onzz, it definitely brings a lot of drama to the mix. It gets revealed in our next episode. He reveals himself to Alex. It’s pretty awesome.

Does it change the relationship between the characters?

It does quite a bit. Up until then it was a question of who is Hank and how much does he know about our past and family. Now, I’m kind of learning more. He’s very much a part of what happened to my dad. So there’s tons of mistrust and a lot of questions and not a lot of answers. He’s walking around with his red glowy eyes all the time that apparently nobody else can see. I asked David that. I was like, “Okay, I’m really confused because in this scene, you’re out in the middle of the D.E.O. and you’re walking through and your eyes get all red…like, doesn’t everybody see that? I don’t understand.”

And he goes , “Well, the way the light reflects…” He’s saying it’s like bending light. I say “Dude, I don’t know what that means. Do people know your glowy eyes or not?” and he’s like, “No.” And I’m like, “Okay, that’s fine.”

It definitely adds a lot of layers to the relationship between them. You start to see that he looks at her almost as if she’s one of his daughters, one of his children. You learn that he had daughters and that in a huge war, his family was basically eradicated, taken out. So there are so many wonderful moments between the two of them where that kind of stuff comes out, where he talks about how I’m very much like his daughter.

I couldn’t think of a better person to work with. He’s just incredible. It’s been really cool watching that arc. The revelation, when it does come out, it’s pretty intense.







We know that Alex is going to help him come to turns with being an alien and looking a little different than Kara does. He’s been her superior. Does helping him change things for them?

Well, it’s kind of funny because in ways it does and it doesn’t. There are so many aspects about Alex. There’s the emotional side, the personal connection side, but she’s also a scientist, so it’s like she’s asking him questions because he’s also the great Martian. He’s the only one left. She’s just mind-blown because he’s literally the last one, and she’s asking a lot of questions.

There’s a balance between the scientist in her and also the personal side of it. There are a lot of moments where Alex kind of toes up to him and stands up and says, “This is crap” or “This is good.” They can kind of bounce ideas off one another, but there’s still a level where he is an authoritative figure and she has to respect that. But she gets her jabs in, which is fine.