Everybody in Hollywood knows that with the right role, an actor or actress' life can change overnight. When "Glee" actress Melissa Benoist bagged the lead role in the new "Supergirl" television series, people expected that her life would undergo a drastic change and she would be constantly basking in the limelight.
However, during an interview with Collider, Benoist admitted that not much has changed, and she can still walk around the streets without people recognizing her or asking for an autograph.
"First of all, I'm not really in public that much because I'm working quite often. But when I am in public, I haven't noticed and external change in my life. It's more internal, as far as what I'm dealing with on a day-to-day basis," she said.
Benoist cannot deny though that Supergirl is a life-changing role, and she has embraced it with an open heart and mind.
"The reason that I was so drawn to it, from the beginning, was that I knew it was a once in a lifetime opportunity," she shared. "I just think it's such a beautiful story to tell, in a sometimes scary world, and that it would be something I'd be really proud to be a part of."
The actress also knows that through Supergirl, she can serve as a positive role model to young girls everywhere, and she takes great care in preserving and highlighting everything that is good about her character.
"How I approach it, every day, is that as long as Kara and Supergirl are enjoying themselves, and are finding the joy in being a hero and the joy in finally using her powers after so long, everything stems from that. I just always keep in mind her bravery, her hope, her positivity and her strength. I think that it will be hard for girls not to look up to that," she said.
While preparing for her role, Benoist said that she did not read a lot of comics books, although she is familiar with a few. She revealed, "I read some of the New 52. But also, what I love about what Ali [Adler], Greg [Berlanti], Andrew [Kreisberg] and Sarah [Schechter] have created is that I truly feel like we are making this modern, 2015 version of her. So, I wanted to know the world, but I wanted to separate myself from it a little bit, to really make her my own."
