Supergirl Stages Glee Reunion, Casts Blake Jenner as Kara’s [Spoiler]
She’s got the flying thing down pat, but how is Supergirl at deflecting a severe blast of déjà vu?
CBS’ rookie drama has tapped Melissa Benoist’s former Glee co-star-turned-real-life husband Blake Jenner to join the cast as a potential new love interest for her character, Kara, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Jenner will portray Adam Foster, a handsome stranger from Cat Grant’s (Calista Flockhart) past whose arrival in National City tests Kara and Cat’s relationship like never before. At the same time, Adam and Kara form a very unexpected connection.
This reunion should prove especially satisfying for those Glee fans still bitter that Benoist and Jenner’s respective characters Marley and Ryder — who joined the show in its fourth season, enduring an off-and-on romance — didn’t end up together at the end of the series.
Jenner is set to appear in multiple Supergirl episodes, the first of which is slated to air in early 2016.
UPDATE: Jenner will make his debut in the Jan. 25 episode.
Haven’t liked him since the Glee Project. Happy for his success, but I’m not a fan.
I wonder how he feels about Melissa’s leaked hardcore porn pics with her ex-boyfriend. That’s gotta be ugly.
Ugh, another love interest for Kara?
I agree. It’s too much too soon. It’s like Hallmark Channel Supergirl with all these instant romances.
but they’re not actually romances. Kara isn’t with any guys right now. She’s single.
She has two guys hot for her and she is hot for one of them so it is a love triangle and it is lazy and boring for only 4 or 5 episodes in.
Some of us who ship Winn & Kara have no chance at all, at this rate…
Exactly.. can they make her a strong female that doesn’t need a man. I realize that there is always a desire to “ship” our favorite characters, but we don’t need this. The show is already faultering. Making Kara weaker and weaker as a character each week instead of stronger. The “Villain of the Week” thing is getting old. The show’s “fun” factor is being severely limited because of this. We thought we were getting The Flash style show with fun, easter eggs and interesting character banter. What we got was an average pseudo 90s romantic comedy with a superhero that isn’t a superhero.
Sure, why not? It’s a pretty common thing for Supergirl to attract a lot of potential suitors in the cpomics. Of course, there’s also the infamous ‘bad luck with boyfriends’ that usually follows, which hasn’t happened yet, but perhaps this is still coming…
I agree Already two guys up for the gig I thought
its no different than how it is on the Flash. Theirs Iris, who is Barry’s main love interest but the writers don’t want them together yet. So they brought in Patty to be his girlfriend. Then theirs fans who want him with Caitlin. So he basically has three possible love interests.
And now on Supergirl, James has a girlfriend. And Kara hasn’t shown romantic feelings for Winn yet. So i understand why they would want to bring in a new love interest for her. Why doesn’t she deserve to have a guy? It’s not like he’ll be a long term love interest.
That’s great for them, but Kara needs to be with Winn already.
Winn is total cliche nice guy. he’s terrible
So she should be with a bad boy?
Has she dated a bad boy yet? James is nice but he’s not a doormat
Winn is funny and sweet…and he’s uncomplicated, he deserves a chance
He isn’t terrible he is boring and I think Kara is rude to him.
She is pretty rude to him.
There were Glee fans that cared enough about either character to be bitter that they didn’t end up together?
I felt bad that out of all the new characters introduced on that season, my favorite was Marley’s Mom.
That’s exactly what I thought. I was glad to see the last of both of them.
Marley and Ryder would’ve been a boring long term couple on Glee. I’m sure they are much happier IRL.
Not sue how glee fans felt anything for the new kids. Malrey was boring and Ryder’s only characteristic was to bang a chair in the background.
Good to have your wife as the star of a TV show!
well not surprising as he hasn’t done much since Glee ended. I just hope this doesn’t become the same as what Jennifer Love Hewitt and Client list.
He’s been focusing on films it seems. He’s going to be in the new Richard Linklater film coming out next year and he has 2 other projects in post-production. Given that Glee stopped filming earlier this year, I’d say he’s been pretty busy.
But…he hasn’t been on Glee in like a season and a half so how is that an excuse?
This
I’d rather see her with him than Jimmy or Winn.
*cough*nepotism*cough*
…ugh, that’s the last thing this show needed.
Lol you is toooo funy
What a great mini-Glee reunion.
With Melissa on Supergirl, Jacob on Quantico and now Blake -it’s good to see the season 4 Glee cast, and Grant Gustin as Flash, getting work. Glee’s biggest mistake was not capitalizing on these actors by getting rid of their characters. But then again, Glee’s loss actually proved to be a good thing for them. Have no idea where most of the original Glee cast are up to nowadays.
Lea Michelle is on Scream Queens and Cory Montieth passed a few years ago. Other than that not sure.
Darren Criss was on Broadway and shoot a movie, Chris Colfer write a few books and shoot 2 movies, Amber Riley is in a new musical, Harry Shum Jr is in Shadowhunters and Glee last episode was only 6 months ago so it’s really not bad for all of them.
Jane Lynch will be on Angel from Hell,the new CBS sitcom next year.
Max Adler (Dave Karofsky) is currently shooting a Clint Eastwood movie in an important role, Chris Colfer (Kurt) keeps on writing, and the biopic in which he plays Noel Coward should be out soon…
You can seriously not compare the s4 cast members to the originals – it was a LOT easier for the ones who only appeared on Glee for a season and a half to find work and not get ‘typed-casted’.
Also, Amber will be part of The Wiz, Lea is on Screen Queens, Dianna was on West End in London and continues to film Indie movies, Darren was on Broadway and AHS, Chris has his best selling books, Harry has a lead role some ABC Family coming out, etc. Just because you don’t see them on your TV every night doesn’t mean they’re not finding success elsewhere.
Jacob has a nothing role on Quantico. He gets like two lines an episode and his character has zero development.
Wow you got that backwards. They should have kept focus on he original. It went off the rail when they tried to to me the newbies happen that blrw it all and focused on blam.
You must not read much. Lea, Jane and Harry all have tv shows. Harry has the sequal to crouching tiger soon too. Darren and Matthew Morrsion have been doing Bway. Amber will be in the live TV musical The Wiz and did a tv movie. Dianna has been doing indie movies. Heather has a horror movie, Naya jsut had a baby but was on Devious Maids, Jenna filmed a movie with Audra MacDonald. Kevin has a radio show and host a game show. Chord is working on music,Lea jsut had her second book out and is wokring on her second album. Chris has released 3 books actually sand is doing the AbFab movies.
Yeah they’re not doing well, worse than being on glee, actually. These are all D-list subceleb gigs, let’s be honest here.
Not really. And then there’s Max Adler, who’s recently had to leave a Woody Allen movie because of earlier commitment to a Clint Eastwood one. Baby steps, indeed.
Yes, being more successful after Glee than 99.999% of the people in their fields is a real problem for them..
Lol. So this show is going to devolve even faster than The Flash did. Melissa will end up with her real-life husband, and the racebent Jimmy will be sidelined. Jimmy’s going to get Iris-ed.
Jimmy won’t get sidelined Supergirl is already doing better at character development than both Flash and Arrow
Ahhhh, I have to disagree with you on that one.
I completely disagree.
Agreed. Relationships and events are happening on this show faster than a speeding bullet. Plus, it’ll be good for the newlyweds to be close together more often.
Seriously, no.
Jimmy (It’s “James”, by the way) seems too old and too mature (which are not always the same thing) for Kara as she’s presented on the show.
Yeah I don’t like that about Kara’s character..she’s very immature on the verge of being dim-witted
agree
I’m still giving The Flash the benefit of the doubt and I hope this is just a phase for Iris. Still waiting for her to voice her feelings on losing Eddie.
I rather see her with Jimmy Olsen! As far as the series I’m still enjoying it.
This is cool tbh I mean yes that means Kara will now have 3 love interests but at least she may have actual chemistry with this one.
She didn’t have it on glee with him.
A character named Adam, with a history with Cat Grant… How old is Cat supposed to be again? Old enough to have a 20 something old son??? Super interested in this development
Interesting! You may be on to something here, JDH! Especially with Toyman having been recently cast!
That was my first thought too. Would also explain why the son Kara babysits for her is named Carter and not Adam.
Now when Supergirl breaks into song. she has someone to harmonize with.
She already had Tony nominee Jeremy Jordan (Winn) for that. ;)
oh wait, Supergirl doesn’t sing?
Stupid. This show needs to go
Nooooo I’d rather they just put her with Winn!!!!
I had no idea they’d gotten married.
oh god pls no
I’m sorry for those who actually like Jimmy Olsen, but the guy is bald! I mean, he can have a pretty face or a nice body… whatever. But the GUY IS BALD. If this was a Superman show I don’t think they would put a bald hot girl as a love interest for Clark. Just saying…
Exactly what is it that you have against bald men, lol?! Plenty of bald men are super-hot!
I don’t have a problem that he’s bald. I have a problem that he’s much older than her….or at least seems a lot older. To me, he seems more like a father-figure. It might be his baldness, I don’t know. Perhaps they miscast the actor, because he looks, sounds, and acts like a much older man. She seems to be in her mid or early twenties and he seems it acts like a man of 40.
U have issues!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. First they were boring on glee together. Second their glee triangle was so boring and Third her Supergirl triangle is already boring. Superbore to the rescue.
Are you being forced to watch all of this supposed “boring” show? No one has tied you to a chair and made you watch? Then learn how to change the channel before anymore of your endless “Superboreness” seriously damages your tiny little brain–you need all the brain cells you got…..
Kara and Winn for the WINN :P!
Stop being oblivious to Winn, Kara, he’s head over heels for you. And you two have great chemistry. Jimmy who?
I think that is a crazy idea to have real life husband on the show look look let super G find her true love and so far so good the show exploded with greatness ok ok now I think the show will out cheat the fans by adding the real love of her life why Cuz we we know who it is
I think that the husband joining her on screen is, for me, going to ruin and cheapen a show that I was otherwise enjoying immensely.
It’s gonna be hard to focus on the characters, when I feel like, in real life, we have a typical, insecure caveman who very likely whined and pouted his way on to the show so that he could keep “his woman” on a short, monitored leash.
Just my opinion.