Batgirl Casts Ivory Aquino as First Trans Character in a DC Comics Film

Ivory Aquino is making historical past after being solid as the primary transgender character in a DC Comedian movie. The Philippines-born actor is ready to play Batgirl’s (Leslie Grace) greatest buddy, Alysia Yeoh, within the upcoming HBO Max movie, Batgirl, which can be directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Each Aquino and her character Yeoh, who first appeared in a 2011 challenge of the Batgirl comics, determine as trans.

Earlier this month, Grace teased Aquino’s Batgirl role when she shared a photograph on her Instagram Story that includes her and Aquino holding palms on what seemed to be the set of the extremely anticipated movie. “Barbara and Alysia 😍🦇” the caption learn.

In 2017, Aquino opened as much as Folks concerning the struggles of discovering work as a transgender actor. “I did not really feel at the moment that there have been any roles I may do,” she mentioned. That very same yr, Aquino portrayed transgender activist Cecilia Chung within the movie When We Rise. “You spend your entire life dreaming of this stuff,” she instructed Folks. “And it is actually humbling when your desires come true.”