Supergirl Star Says Playing Cyborg Superman Is Boring

David Harewood is tasked with playing several roles on Supergirl, and not just because one of them is a shapeshifter. However, it is clear that one of those roles is his least favorite to work on.

Harewood was a guest at the Australian convention Supanova in Perth where he was interviewed by young Supergirl superfan Tanisha McAteer. McAteer asked Harewood whether he enjoys playing the Martian Manhunter or Cyborg Superman more and Harewood made it clear that it is absolutely no contest.

“I don’t like playing Cyborg Superman. It’s boring,” Harewood says, rather candidly, in the video above. “They didn’t really flesh it out, they didn’t really write for the character, they just gave me this rather cheap-looking mask and no costume and said ‘okay you’re Cyborg Superman.’ But it didn’t really pan out, they didn’t really go into why he was a Cyborg, how he became a Cyborg, what its powers were, it was just kind of randomly calling him Cyborg Superman. I was very excited about it at first, but then I very quickly realised that there wasn’t really much to it. Whenever I walk into my trailer and I see that costume, I just switch off because I know it’s gonna be a really boring day.”

Based on the DC Comics character, Supergirl AKA Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist), decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and become the hero who she was always meant to be on The CW series, Supergirl.

In Supergirl Season Two, Kara has left the safety of being Cat Grant’s assistant in order to figure out what she really wants to do, while as Supergirl she continues to work at the DEO., protecting the citizens of National City and searching for Jeremiah and Cadmus. Along the way, she will team up with Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) to battle new villains, as she strives to balance her personal life with her life as a superhero.

Distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, SUPERGIRL is executive produced by Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “The Flash”), Ali Adler (“The New Normal”), Andrew Kreisberg (“The Flash,” “Arrow”) and Sarah Schechter (“Blindspot,” “The Mysteries of Laura”). Supergirl is based on the characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and appearing in DC Comics, by special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel Family.

Supergirl will return for its third season this fall.

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