Helen Slater

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Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Helen Slater won the role of Supergirl in 1984 fresh out of New York City’s High School of the Performing Arts. Now she’s playing Melissa Benoist’s mother in the newest incarnation of Supergirl on the CW network. In between she’s had many experiences in and out of show business which she was only too happy to share with Leonard and Jessie (who fell in love with her in The Legend of Billie Jean). Our favorite: a memorable conversation with costar Peter O’Toole.

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0:33.5	Hi, I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton. And you're listening to Malton on movies.
0:37.5	And our guest today is the lovely Helen Slater.
0:41.4	Yes, the same Helen Slater, who, astonishingly, how could it be 35 years ago that you were a super girl?
0:48.9	How is that possible?
0:50.0	It's crazy.
0:50.7	I know.
0:51.4	Because you still look super to me.
0:53.0	Oh, isn't that nice? But I'm just telling the truth.
0:56.0	That's why you've been married so many years. Right. Thank you. Thank you. That's so sweet.
1:03.1	And I mean, that was, we're going to get the whole backstory.
1:07.4	Sure. We're going to grill you about all of this. But that was your first movie. Yes.
1:12.6	And it became, I guess your signature is the best way to put it. But who could have envisioned,
1:20.5	certainly not you or anybody else, that you'd be still involved with Supergirl all these years later
1:26.0	and its newest incarnation. Yeah, it's
1:28.3	to be playing her mother now. I play Supergirl's mom on the CBS, or now C.W. Show, no, C.W. It's
1:34.4	switching. It's CW. I think it's still CW. Yes. A station with letters, we'll just go with.
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