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Chyler Leigh Pitches The Way Home Role for Supergirl Sis Melissa Benoist

BY VLADA GELMAN
MAY 12, 2024

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Supergirl’s Danvers siblings have moved on to new TV gigs, but that’s not stopping fans — and Chyler Leigh — from wishing for a sisterly reunion.

Leigh and Melissa Benoist, of course, played Alex Danvers and Kara Danvers (aka Supergirl) on the aforementioned CW drama, which concluded its run in 2021. The actresses also formed a strong friendship while filming the show, with Leigh once describing Benoist as “my inspiration, my friend, my #soulsister” on Instagram.

Benoist, meanwhile, told Teen Vogue in 2015 that Leigh is “so easy to hang out with and we just click really well. She’s my favorite person to do scenes with… I love working with Chyler and it really is this unbreakable bond already.”

So could the former co-stars share the screen again one day? Leigh currently stars in and executive-produces Hallmark Channel‘s popular time-traveling family drama The Way Home (which has been renewed for Season 3), while Benoist headlines and produces the Max series The Girls on the Bus (which wrapped up Season 1 this past Thursday).

At a recent Emmy Awards For Your Consideration event for The Way Home, TVLine asked Leigh if she could cast Benoist in any role on the show, what would it be?

“I think maybe a Lady of the Pond,” Leigh answered, referencing the magical body of water that allows her character Kat (and her daughter Alice) to time travel. “She comes up, kind of levitating so it’s a little nod back to Supergirl. I could see her coming up and singing with her beautiful voice.”

Added Leigh: “I would love if she would be on the show. I miss her dearly.”

In other Arrowverse-adjacent news, The Girls on the Bus showrunner Rina Mimoun recently told TVLine that while Benoist and Legends of Tomorrow star Tala Ashe — who plays a Democratic presidential candidate on the Max series, while Benoist’s Sadie is a political journalist — did not share any scenes in the first season, there is potential for an Arrowverse “crossover” if the show is renewed.

“[Their] storylines never quite crossed,” Mimoun explained. “It’s funny, because we did very much think about who would make the perfect veep for [Scott Foley’s] Hot White Guy [in Season 2], and it did seem like Tala would be the one.”

(With reporting by Megan Vick)
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That also got me thinking...if Mel and Chy do an episode of The Way Home...and it's a risk...it may be a musical ep where they sing.

A whole musical episode of The Way Home wouldn’t work, a pond that’s also a time travel portal wouldn’t compel the characters to sing. There’s plenty of music in The Way Home, the title of each episode except the first one “Mother’s and Daughter’s” is a song title. Alice sings and Chyler’s Kat sang at the local bar’s karaoke night.
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If this can happen, it would mark Melissa's first effort on a Hallmark Channel show. Chyler Leigh and Jeremy Jordan have done the net's famed Christmas/holiday movies, with Jeremy in a comedic Hanukkah film and a tug at the heart Christmas film Holly and Ivy.

And Chyler is known for her dry, sometimes sarcastic humor while Melissa goes for the giggles.

That also got me thinking...if Mel and Chy do an episode of The Way Home...and it's a risk...it may be a musical ep where they sing.

And then, perhaps Melissa can star in her own Hallmark Christmas movie as the lead actress, and with some kind of singing element. I mean, she did sing The First Noelwhen she was on Glee.

Looking way forward I know, but, hey why not?
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Chyler’s probably joking with the lady of the pond thing because something like that wouldn’t fit with the rest of the show at all. Besides time travel The Way Home stays pretty realistic.

I do however have a part Melissa could guest star as. There’s a character Nick who is a childhood friend of Chyler’s character Kat and Elliot(Evan Williams). Nick doesn’t live in Port Haven anymore but visits, adult Nick has appeared in like 3-4 episodes total. When Kat’s daughter Alice(Sadie La Flame-Snow) time traveled back to 1999/2000 she and Nick had a teenage romance, they were each other’s first loves. It was awkward to say the least when grown up Nick visits and says he has a fiancé named Clare. Clare has never appeared so Melissa could guest star as Clare who Nick finally brings to meet his family and friends. Port Haven has a bar that does a Karaoke night, Chyler sang “You Learn” by Alanis Morissette in season 1, so that would be a way for Melissa to sing.
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