In the comic books, Reign is just a bloodthirsty bio-engineered Warkiller. On TV, she has no idea.
That’s the intel that came from Entertainment Weekly today as they had some quotes from Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg about the character Odette Annable will be playing in Supergirl Season 3.
“When we meet Reign, she’s just a woman,” he said. “Her name is Samantha and she’s a single mom, and she has no idea that she is Reign; she has no idea that she was the baby in the pod at the end of last season, so the journey that she takes this season is watching her realize her heritage and see how it manifests.”
A big theme of Supergirl Season 3 is “what does it mean to be human?” and Samantha’s transformation into Reign will tie in to that theme. It also gave Kreisberg a chance to shake things up in the “big bad” game.
“I’m not only competing with myself on Supergirl, but I’m competing with myself on all the other shows that I’ve done, and by that I mean I don’t want to repeat what I’ve done on Supergirl, nor do I want to repeat what I’ve done on Arrow and Flash,” Kreisberg said.
“Usually on these shows,” Kreisberg continued, “you either meet the big bad at the end of episode 1 or you meet them at episode 7 or 9, and you realize that they’ve been pulling the strings the whole time, and were out there working with their multi-year plan to take down the heroes or destroy the city. When we were figuring out Reign, one thing we’ve never really seen on any of these shows is we’ve never seen the big bad become the big bad.”
Supergirl Season 3 premieres October 9 on The CW. You can read EW’s original article here.