ilm,  says Slater, who points out that she stayed busy with other projects.  As long as I was working, that seemed like the good news.  She adds that fame was not something she necessarily embraced:  I felt shy about it. It wasn't like,  Hooray, people recognize me. Isn't this wonderful?' It just feels so strange and unusual. 

Slater's other credits have included features like The Legend of Billie Jean and City Slickers, along with recurring as Clark Kent's mother on Smallville and as the adoptive mother of Melissa Benoist's title character in the series Supergirl. She also went back to school to earn a doctorate in mythological studies and depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, which was a topic she chatted about with The Flash star Ezra Miller when Slater visited the 2023's film London set for a de-aged cameo that showed her alongside the late Reeve.

 I loved that movie The Flash,  Slater says.  Ezra was so lovely and knew about my graduate work in mythology and wanted to talk about that.  While there was speculation at the time of The Flash's release that Slater's appearance as Supergirl was CGI-generated, the actress clarifies that she actually filmed the part:  I was in this very wild machine with 600 eyes around it. But they could have just put a Barbie doll in because I'm de-aged so much. They were so kind to fly me out to London, but I don't know that they needed to. 

Through her studies in mythology, Slater has come to appreciate retellings and evolutions for characters that are core to our cultural experience, and she hopes filmmakers continue taking risks with such projects.  My understanding is that these myths should be changing,  she reasons.  We want reinterpretations. That keeps it alive and keeps it going. It echoes what's happening in the culture right now. It's fun that it evolves and keeps developing.