As great as Supergirl’s second season was, there were some things that didn’t completely connect — one of them being the reveal that the original Hank Henshaw lives as “Cyborg Superman,” even though there’s no “S” and the cyborg parts weirdly appear on the outside.
Speaking with a young interviewer at the Supanova convention in Australia, David Harewood revealed a secret: He wasn’t a fan of “Cyborg Superman” either.
“I don’t like playing Cyborg Superman,” he admitted. “It’s boring. 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 his powers were … it was just kind of randomly calling him ‘Cyborg Superman’,” he explained.
“I was very excited about it at first, but then I very quickly realized that there wasn’t really much to it … so, it’s kind of boring. Whenever I’m walking to my trailer and I see that costume, I just switch off. Because I know it’s going to be a really boring day,” he said.
Hopefully we’ll get some more detail or an upgraded look for the character in Season 3. (And if not, Dean Cain as Cyborg Superman so we can get him in a costume again, please?)
As an aside, we asked Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg about why the character is called “Cyborg Superman” when there doesn’t seem to be a costume, and here’s how he responded:
“It was just a nod to the comics,” he said. “We talked about having in a suit and then we just decided that would be… Part of the conceit in the comic books was that he really did look like [Superman and] he was pretending to be Superman for a while. So he had the suit, and he actually physically looked like Superman, and we didn’t have that. It was more just a nod for the fans,” Kreisberg admitted.
Supergirl Season 3 premieres Monday, October 9 on The CW. You can watch video of the interview below.
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