Rachel Talalay’s reveal to CinemaBlend that Lynda Carter herself gave Melissa Benoist pointers on how to perfect the twirl goes a long way to explain why Benoist’s spin move was so on point.
The appearance of Lynda Carter on Supergirl meant that viewers everywhere were expecting at least some small recognition of the fact that the woman who made Wonder Woman famous in the 1970s was onscreen with the current Supergirl.
Few of us probably could have guessed that the Supergirl team would find a way to fit the iconic Wonder Woman twirl into “Welcome to Earth,” but apparently lighting Kara on fire was the way to go.