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I love fire. Don’t you? It is like…a living act of entropy. The ultimate weapon of destruction. Reminding us that in the end…everything eventually returns to the ash it came from. There is something reassuring about it.

Melissa Benoist is taking her superpowers behind the camera.

EW has learned that Supergirl‘s leading woman will make her directorial debut with the 17th episode of season 5. According to Benoist, this has been a long time coming.

“I’ve been wanting to direct since season 3, but couldn’t last year because of scheduling conflicts, so [star] David Harewood did it first,” Benoist, who plays the Girl of Steel, a.k.a. Kara Danvers, tells EW. “I just felt really drawn to it for a couple of seasons now, just because you know the show so well, and you get to know the character, and the world, and the tone of the show so well that you can’t help but envision certain scenes in a certain way. I want to play with that.”