Supergirl’s Azie Tesfai Discusses What It’s Really Like Being A Black Female Superhero

After we see Kelly don her model of the Guardian supersuit in “Blind Spots,” a younger lady grabs a trash can lid and says, “I am Guardian.” On that scene and the way she feels giving younger viewers a superhero that they will actually see themselves in, Tesfai stated, “I needed that so dangerous, after which I obtained to solid the younger ladies who did it, and it made me so glad to see. There have been two ladies, and I obtained to solid them each. After which after I … I simply bear in mind assembly her. I met everybody in my regular garments, after which I needed to go to alter, after which I met that lady as a superhero, and her response to me was such a testomony.” Nevertheless, the second wasn’t simply deeply important for Tesfai.

She added, “I walked into the solid space to say hello to all our visitor actors, and he or she was like [gasping], and I am like, ‘Oh, I am a Black feminine superhero.'” The younger actress was so enthralled with Tesfai that she had to determine the way to hold the scene going. Tesfai famous, “It was the primary time I would seen earlier than we shot that scene, the younger lady scene. And it was similar to, she simply watched — to the purpose the place, once we did that piece, I had already shot one thing, and I used to be going to do one thing else, and so they could not get her to cease me. And so I needed to come behind [David] Ramsey and stand behind the digicam as a result of she simply couldn’t…” earlier than she trailed off.