"Grey's Anatomy" alum Chyler Leigh plays Alex Danvers in "Supergirl." (Photo : Twitter/@cupcakechyler)
"Supergirl" executive producer Greg Berlanti recently dropped the bomb by saying that one of the characters from the four The CW superhero shows will come out as gay.
As of late, it is still unclear who this character will be and Berlanti doesn't want to reveal his identity, but said that whoever it is will make sense.
According to TV Line, Winn (Jeremy Jordan) is the likely choice because he has never been linked to any other woman except for Supergirl herself. Unfortunately, their relationship didn't progress because Kara only saw him as her friend.
Meanwhile, there are also some rumors suggesting that Chyler Leigh's character Alex may be revealed to be a lesbian in the upcoming episodes of "Supergirl." After all, she's never been linked to a man except for the villainous character Maxwell Lord. Unfortunately, there's really no spark or connection between the two of them.
Interestingly, it seems that Alex made a strong connection with the National City Police Department detective Maggie Sawyer in the previous season.
However, what the publication might have missed is the fact that "Arrow" star Colton Haynes will be returning to The CW series for season 5. Even though Haynes' character Roy Harper was in a relationship with Thea Queen (Willa Holland), this does not mean that she couldn't be revealed to be gay. In fact, the actor just came out of the closet a few months back, and the execs of "Arrow" might want to give his real-life identity some justice.
"We had a character who we had discussed as a possibility last year internally, and it didn't materialize. We didn't get to the story. We just didn't have enough real estate to deal with it in the way that we wanted to deal with it. So when we were planning this season, we said to the network and to the studio that it was a priority for us, and everyone was cool with it," Berlanti said.
"And obviously, the character hadn't been gay, we hadn't necessarily discussed it with the actor, too... It's not a new character that's been added," he said.
Berlanti said that it is their goal to make the character's storyline as interesting and sensible as possible. "It feels real to us and that it feels real that this character could have been struggling with not expressing this, and then real as they start to discover it, and then, obviously, real as they settle into being who they really are," he said.
