{"id":33951,"date":"2015-01-22T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=33951"},"modified":"2015-01-22T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T02:21:35","slug":"melissa-benoist-responds-supergirl-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/01\/22\/melissa-benoist-responds-supergirl-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Benoist Responds to &#8220;Supergirl&#8221; Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former &#8220;Glee&#8221; star Melissa Benoist has been named CBS&#8217; &#8220;Supergirl,&#8221; and she is &#8220;so excited&#8221; for the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>If only social media gave her a means of most effectively sharing that excitement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish there was a superhero emoji,&#8221; Tweeted Benoist, who latere added, &#8220;But seriously, sans emoji&#8230; I AM SO EXCITED.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benoist, who appeared as Marley on the fourth and fifth seasons of &#8220;Glee,&#8221; joins CBS&#8217; high-profile superhero project.  Set for a spot on next year&#8217;s schedule, &#8220;Supergirl&#8221; chronicles Kara Zor-El (Benoist), who had been hiding her superhuman abilities since arriving on Earth.  Now 24, she decides to fulfill her destiny as a hero.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Berlanti and Ali Adler wrote the pilot.  Several names, including Claire Holt and Elizabeth Lail, were among those considered for the role won by Benoist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[1092,3531],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Melissa Benoist Responds to &quot;Supergirl&quot; Role<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former &quot;Glee&quot; star Melissa Benoist has been named CBS&#039; &quot;Supergirl,&quot; and she is &quot;so excited&quot; for the opportunity. 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