 In 1984, Dunaway played the lead villain in the superhero movie "Supergirl".She felt that "the film was really just a send-up, a spoof, and I had a lot of fun with Selena (her character)" but later admitted she was furious with the director Jeannot Szwarc, "Every time I tried to do something funny, he wouldn't let me.He said, "you have to be the straight person".