Barbara Gordon has formally discovered her roommate.
Ivory Aquino (“Tales of the Metropolis,” “When We Rise”) has been solid within the HBO Max function movie “Batgirl” as Alysia Yeoh, one of the best pal of the titular superhero, a.okay.a. Barbara Gordon (Leslie Grace).
Each Aquino and Yeoh are transgender, marking the primary time a live-action function movie adaptation of a DC Comics title will function an overtly trans character. Yeoh first appeared in a 2011 problem of “Batgirl” written by Gail Simone and penciled by Ardian Syaf.
Information of Aquino’s casting first leaked on-line in mid-January after Grace posted a photograph seemingly from the set of the movie to her Instagram story, tagging Aquino and captioning the shot (of two girls crossing the road) with “Barbara and Alysia 😍🦇”.
There have been a number of strides in broadening LGBTQ illustration in superhero diversifications over the previous few years, particularly on tv. The CW collection “Supergirl” included the primary trans superhero on TV in Dreamer (performed by Nicole Maines) and the title superhero’s sister, Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh), got here out as a lesbian on Season 2. The lead character on the CW’s “Batwoman” has at all times been a lesbian, whether or not performed by Ruby Rose in Season 1 or Javicia Leslie on subsequent seasons. The animated DC collection “Harley Quinn” ended its second season with Harley and Poison Ivy falling in love and the DC Movies adaptation “Birds of Prey” included lesbian police detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez). In 2021, Marvel Studios’ Disney Plus collection “Loki,” the title character (performed by Tom Hiddleston) revealed he’s pansexual and the function movie “Eternals” included the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first same-sex couple, performed by Brian Tyree Henry and Haaz Sleiman.
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (“Unhealthy Boys For Life”) are directing “Batgirl.” The movie costars J.Ok. Simmons (as Barbara’s father, Gotham Metropolis police commissioner Jim Gordon), Brendan Fraser (because the unspecified important villain), Michael Keaton (reprising his function as Bruce Wayne/Batman, which he’ll first do in “The Flash” in late 2022) and Jacob Scipio (in an unknown function).
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