“It felt like a student film because it was so intimate and there weren’t a lot of cooks in the kitchen. “It really felt like we went through war together… We were a team, and it was incredible to have that support on set and off set,” she says. Tesfai also shares a real-life friendship with Ramsey and leaned on that strong bond while creating the episode.
Everything changed a lot as we were going through notes, but no one touched that scene.” Like, how can you support me in ways that that make me feel better, and not just make you feel better? It is such a complicated thing to tackle, and I was grateful that that scene didn’t change much at all from the first draft. “But it’s like, I can tell you something, but you’re never really going to get it. “Chyler and I are very close in real life, so even our dynamic and tackling subjects of race have that to it because she’s so loving and so supportive of me,” she shares. Tesfai notes that she and costar Chyler Leigh have had similar conversations off-screen, speaking to their strong bond as real-life friends. It’s a tough but necessary moment that speaks to the episode’s thesis, which is that these issues take work and can’t be solved in a day. When Alex asks how she can better support her girlfriend, Kelly, who’s still processing the events of the episode, asks for the time and space to unpack everything and to just be loved and supported. The show highlights those boundaries in Kelly’s conversation with Alex at the end of the hour.
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I felt myself want to comfort in certain moments and being like, ‘No.’ This character is also teaching me how to stand in my boundaries and unapologetically speak on how I feel.” Having Kelly say things that either I’ve said in my life or I’ve always wanted to say and didn’t feel empowered to was a tricky situation. “Many times, it comes at the expense of the person that’s sharing it because we compromise ourselves to make you feel better. “I’m like, ‘This is how we should feel because these conversations feel that way,'” she explains. Holtham ( Pitch, Cloak & Dagger, Jessica Jones) and recalls the raw emotion felt by everyone during that scene, including the cameraman who told her he wanted to cry. Melissa Benoist, meanwhile, “really wanted to lean into the uncomfortableness of it,” she says. “It is an interesting thing when you have a character that represents the best of so many people, and so to take that and challenge it was uncomfortable for some people.” “That day was really hard,” Azie Tesfai tells TVLine of Kelly’s frank conversation with Supergirl. However, it wasn’t until Kelly spelled out what was happening and that “getting back to normal” wasn’t good enough - they need restorative justice - that Supergirl finally realized she’d overlooked an entire community. Diggle (guest star and director David Ramsey), who was referred by her brother James, also provided some much-needed support as she investigated the cause of the community’s illness. Kelly grew increasingly frustrated over the lack of aid from the Superfriends, except for her girlfriend Alex, who called a friend to send over additional supplies, and Dreamer, who lent her a device to help with her investigation.