Nathan Fillion flies to Milly Alcock's defense following Supergirl's box office defeat

Fillion was far less stubborn about defending another DCU colleague however. In an interview with Variety, the Firefly star put up a big, green middle finger to the mixed response that greeted Milly Alcock’s Supergirl, which notably underperformed at the box office this summer. “I can’t tell you much as far as to how people responded,” says Fillion, “I can tell you, though, how I respond. I really enjoy when the right person is selected for the right job.”

For Fillion, that person is Alcock, whose interpretation of Superman’s more bitter and hard-partying cousin he calls “brilliant,” adding enthusiastically, “I am so pleased with these favorite characters of mine coming to life.”

Fillion, who’s already played superheroes as varied as Guy Gardner and fellow Green Lantern Hal Jordan (in animated form), an alternate reality Deadpool head, gunslinging Vigilante in Justice League Unlimited, The Suicide Squad‘s T.D.K. (fans know what that stands for), and even The Holy Avenger in James Gunn’s 2011 dark comedy vigilante spoof Super certainly knows his stuff. And so, according to Fillion, do DCU co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, which makes sense, as Fillion has worked on an even dozen of Gunn’s various productions since he first starred in the Gunn-directed Slither in 2006. 

Speaking of his longtime collaborator, Fillion echoed his faith in Supergirl producer Gunn to create a DCU where wildly different tones and tales can coexist. As Fillion jokes/not jokes, “I have yet to be disappointed by anything James Gunn does, which is great because he puts me in most everything he does!”