Following her breakout role as the younger version of Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s “House of the Dragon,” Milly Alcock will soon return to screens this week in Netflix’s limited series “Sirens,” starring alongside Julianne Moore and Meghann Fahy. “She’s graceful on and off and it was just really inspiring, just learning off her,” Alcock told IndieWire at the New York premiere about her time working alongside Moore.
The series marks the rising Aussie star’s first production in the United States. “You guys have weird hours,” she said of what it was like working in the States versus her experience on other projects around the world. “On other sets I’ve worked on, you start at the same time every day and you finish at the same time every day. But in the US, they have a thing where you can do 14 hours and then if you go over, the call time rolls over, so by the end of the week you’re doing ‘Fraturdays,’ which I didn’t realize was a thing and now I hate them [laughs].”
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Alcock will soon make her debut as Supergirl, the cousin of Superman in James Gunn’s “Superman” in July, before starring in her own film with director Craig Gillespie next year for “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.” Plot details are being kept under wraps for the film, but it has a script by actress Ana Nogueira. The film is inspired specifically by Tom King’s 2022 comic series “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,” and it will fit into the larger DC universe of stories Gunn and Peter Safran are building.
Although she hasn’t seen Gunn’s film yet, we asked the actress if she received any advice from anyone to prepare for stepping into the famed DC Studios role. “No, I asked,” she said. “They were just like, ‘Prepare to be bruised, there will be battle scars, and you’ll be proud of them. That definitely happened!”
Jason Momoa will star alongside Alcock as Lobo, an alien mercenary and bounty hunter from the utopian planet of Czarnia in the DC comics. He, on his Instagram, shared a screenshot of a quote from a prior interview in which he said that if anyone ever called asking him to play Lobo or to audition, “I’m there.” He tagged the post simply, “They called.”
The official synopsis for “Sirens” reads: “Devon (Fahy) thinks her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) has a really creepy relationship with her new boss, the enigmatic socialite Michaela Kell (Moore). Michaela’s cult-ish life of luxury is like a drug to Simone, and Devon has decided it’s time for an intervention. But she has no idea what a formidable opponent Michaela will be. Told over the course of one explosive weekend at The Kells’ lavish beach estate, ‘Sirens’ is an incisive, sexy, and darkly funny exploration of women, power, and class.”
It premieres May 22 on Netflix. Check out the trailer here.
