The day Milly Alcock became obsessed with Amyl and the Sniffers: “They’re fucking sick”
If you’re someone who hasn’t heard of Milly Alcock before, or you have but can’t quite place where you know her name from, then that is likely to change very soon if the response to the new teaser trailer for the DC Comics blockbuster Supergirl is anything to go by.
The next film from the James Gunn-curated DC Universe that saw this year’s Superman defy concerns to be a hit with audiences and critics and bring in more than $600m at the box office, will see Alcock playing Kara Zor El/Supergirl after stealing the show in short cameos in the first movie.
The Australian actor gained fame initially after landing a major part in the Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon, winning award nominations for her performance, and a third season of the show is currently being filmed, due for release around June 2026.
Alcock was a Disney Channel graduate in her native Australia and appeared in her first film back in 2018, a horror named The School, before taking a role on two seasons of a comedy drama called Upright, written by Tim Minchin.
House of the Dragon came along in 2021, and it may well have been a link with her co-star Matt Smith in the series that led to Alcock appearing as the main character in Noel Gallagher’s music video for his single Easy Now. Smith and Gallagher are good friends, and Alcock plays the lead throughout the clip.
Obviously, music is a big deal for Alcock, especially as she admits she channelled rock for her part in House of the Dragon, more specifically an Australian band who have come from nowhere in the last few years to headline festivals around the globe – Amyl and the Sniffers.
Alcock told Complex: “Rhys [Ifans] and Paddy (Considine) actually told me to listen to them. They were like, “They’re an oldie band, you should listen to them.
“They’re both big into—well, Paddy’s got a band, like a punk band. They’re both very big into that kind of music. But they were like, ‘You need to check out this band, Amyl and the Sniffers.’ I did, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, they’re fucking sick.’”
The Aussie pub rock band come from Melbourne, fronted by charismatic front woman Amy Taylor, releasing their first album, a self-titled effort, in 2019. It was their second album, Comfort to Me, that proved to be a breakthrough for the band, though in 2021, it got to number 21 on the UK album charts and featured the storming single ‘Hertz’.
After its release, the band landed support slots from bands including Green Day and Weezer, before things got even more hectic the following year, and they embarked on tours with not just the Smashing Pumpkins but Foo Fighters too.
Alcock, meanwhile, has a couple more projects on the way, including Thumb, a comedy co-starring Sofia Vergara and SNL’s Kate McKinnon about a woman who makes the bizarre discovery of a severed human thumb in her letterbox and sets off to discover how it got there. She’ll also appear alongside fellow Australian Toni Collette in Hot Mother, which is, seriously, about two women stuck in a sauna.
