2016 TV News Archives

January 12, 2016: Further Details on Laura Vandervoort's Role on "Supergirl"

Laura Vandervoort As we reported yesterday, Laura Vandervoort (who once played the role of Supergirl/Kara on the "Smallville" TV series) has been cast in the recurring role of Indigo (aka Brainiac 8) for the current "Supergirl" TV series airing on CBS.

At this week's Television Critics Association press event Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg discussed the decision to cast Laura in the role, and how they'd tried to cast her on the show before now...

    "First of all, when the show was announced, Laura sent out the sweetest Tweet, just saying how honored she had been and how excited she was for Melissa, and that meant so much to me. I just thought it was such a classy move. And then I met her at the Saturn Awards, and we had such a great talk... there have actually been a couple of other parts that we tried to get her for, but she wasn't free because [Laura's own television show] Bitten was in production, but as always with casting, I always find that when a role doesn't work out with somebody, it's because the right role is coming down the pike, and now [we] have her step in and be a recurring character on the show," Andrew enthuses.

As for the character she'll be playing, Kreisberg explains...

    Brainiac 8 - aka Indigo - is "bad ass" and is integral to the over-arching Supergirl Season 1 arcs. And what might she look like? "She's gonna look awesome. Definitely not gonna look just like Laura," he teases. "Being one aspect of the Brainiac Program, she comes in through computers, so Winn is actively involved in that episode. But she has a very interesting backstory. She was one of the Fort Rozz prisoners. But how she came to be, and how she ended up in the prison, and what she's been doing on Earth is part of the fun and the surprise of the episode."

Source: KryptonSite.com



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