{"id":2512065,"date":"2026-07-22T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2512065"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:00:11","slug":"we-want-your-song-in-our-movie-but-can-you-sing-it-in-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/we-want-your-song-in-our-movie-but-can-you-sing-it-in-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We want your song in our movie – but can you sing it in alien?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Would you like to be in my film?”<\/p>\n

It’s a question any singer songwriter dreams of being asked by a big movie director, and when the question was put to Winnie Ama after performing in a bar one night, she couldn’t believe her luck. <\/p>\n

But there was a catch. <\/p>\n

As part of her role in the new Supergirl movie, her original song What are we needed to be translated into an alien language. <\/p>\n

Two weeks after the Belfast singer’s chance encounter with the film’s director, she and her pianist were invited for an official audition. <\/p>\n

“I had never acted before, so I was sweating quite a lot, but we made it, and we got the part in the room,” Winnie said. <\/p>\n

“We went for fittings straight away, and it went from there.”<\/p>\n

She was cast to play a singing alien in the new Supergirl film, which was released last month.<\/p>\n

‘I’ve always wanted to be an alien’<\/h2>\n

Winnie is well used to the spotlight – from performing in London bars to outdoor music festivals – but singing in an alien language brought a whole new world of challenges. <\/p>\n

Her character performs her original song in an alien bar in space, when Supergirl visits the planet of Bilquis. <\/p>\n

What are we is the first song Winnie released as a solo artist in 2020, and an alien language specialist was hired to help her translate it into the Bilquis language. <\/p>\n

“We went through each word and each syllable to make sure that the pronunciation was perfect for Bilquis,” she said.<\/p>\n

“He told me about the structure and the origins of the language that he created, which was so cool, because he’s the guy who created other alien languages like [Star Trek’s] Klingon. <\/p>\n

“Being a Bilquis alien was so much fun, I’ve always wanted to be an alien.”<\/p>\n

She said during filming in Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden England, she woke up at 4am, they would pick her up and take her to get her Bilquis costume on. <\/p>\n

“The hair, the make up, everything was applied by hand and it took about four hours – and at the end of the day they would scrub me down.” <\/p>\n

The song is about ‘conflict’<\/h2>\n

What are we fits well into the narrative of the film because the song “is about conflict, and there is a lot of conflict in the film”, Winnie said. <\/p>\n

“Supergirl is navigating a lot of conflict and trauma – and in the song I’m really questioning what it’s like whenever you start to question a relationship, whether it’s a friend or someone you live with where you just fundamentally disagree and there’s some elephants in the room that you have to navigate.”<\/p>\n

The DC Studios Supergirl film, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock, follows a reluctant superhero on a quest to save her dog, Krypto, teaming up with a bounty hunter named Lobo (Jason Momoa). <\/p>\n

“We’ve had so many different versions of Superman and not that many about Supergirl,” Winnie said. <\/p>\n

“I think this film is really important because it’s not your traditional superhero, she’s like a real person with real emotions. <\/p>\n

“I think it’s quite ahead of its time,” she added. <\/p>\n