“The Flash” director Andy Muschietti and his producer sister, Barbara, opened up about casting Sasha Calle as Supergirl and Ezra Miller’s hilarious missing scenes from the new DC superhero movie. The director also spoke to Narcity’s Josh Elliott about his future with DC Studios and dropped a big hint about the next Batman movie, called “The Brave And The Bold.”
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00:00All right, you want to play? Yeah, I would love to. Okay, well then maybe you will need this.
00:10You know what this is? You're a super girl.
00:22Hi, how's it going? I'm Josh from Narcity. How are you? Hey Josh, how are you? Good. Andy, I want to
00:28start with you. I want to start with you and I want to start with Supergirl and Sasha Callie.
00:31Obviously, you posted that incredible video of the moment you gave her the role. You know, I'm
00:37curious, you get to put your stamp on this character whereas everyone else is inherited in a way.
00:41What was it about Sasha that made you say, this is my Supergirl and she's not going to be
00:46blonde, she's not going to be blue-eyed, she's going to be Latina? Yeah, well, I saw her audition
00:52and there was something about her that immediately spoke to me, mainly her strength but also her
00:59vulnerability. She's a phenomenal actor and there's something about her that I couldn't quite
01:04explain. That's part of the exploration in the film, you know, the film media, the excitement
01:11about working with an actor that you know or at least it's an intuition thing where you say
01:19something magical can happen here. So, I can tell you the rational things why I picked her but also
01:26there's something that is unexplainable and it has to do with that intuition.
01:31Very happy at the end, like she gave me that and more. You can see the magic on screen for sure.
01:37Barbara, I want to ask you, you know, DC fans love to hear about the things they missed and I heard
01:42there was a four-hour cut of this movie. Can you tell me the coolest thing that didn't make the
01:47cut but you really wanted to include? Oh man, that's an amazing question. I think there was a
01:53longer Barry's apartment, yeah, longer Barry's apartment scene that was just hilarious and
02:05hopefully it will see the light of day. I mean, it's still very funny but we had to condense it.
02:11Those guys are just hilarious.
02:20Well, Andy, I want to ask you, you know, you inherited two batmen here too. You've got Tim
02:24Burton's batman, you've got Zack Snyder's batman and I'm curious, you know, if you were to take
02:30your own batman in a brave and bold direction, what would you want to put on, what kind of spin
02:34would you want to put on that character? Oh, that's, I don't think I can talk to that.
02:39Okay, that's fair. Okay, Barbara, I want to ask you, you know, the movie is all about
02:47little moments, you know, misses, hits here where it can change the whole course of things.
02:52This movie took a long time to get to the finish line and you guys got it across. There were writers
02:56before, there were directors before. What was the moment for you that you think everything
03:01maybe turned on and we ended up with the best timeline right here?
03:07We got together with Christina Hodgson, a writer, and I think, you know, she nailed
03:16the script. That was a first step. And second, we are, you know, dogs with a bone. We don't let it
03:24go. We're stubborn as hell. And the pandemic started and we managed to keep our crew together.
03:32We kept on prepping through, you know, rain, shine, and, you know, and viruses. And
03:41we managed to get to the UK six months later, but we did.
03:45And here we are. So it's, you know, talent and stubbornness.