Batgirl Casting Shortlist!

[DC89]

@Mae

Supergirl and Batgirl are now Latina women! That would be a very cool and squee-worthy World’s Finest!

Agreed!

[NYJt3]

Just heard the casting sounds awesome™

[mccaggers91]

I’m curious as to why its a HBO Max movie and not a theatrical release. Maybe if its a hit will get a Batgirl TV series? I hope so!

[c02goddess.16092]

I thought the HBO Max Gotham based projects were announced as tie ins to The Batman. My assumption is that these two will be related.

[mercurie80]

I think it is great that they cast a Latina in the role! If I recall, Miss Grace is Dominican.

[zulmara5.38205]

I was hoping for Isabela Merced myself, but yeah, Leslie Grace was great on In The Heights so it’s not a loss. Hispanic Supergirl, Hispanic Batgirl, as a Hispanic myself me likey, LOL. Dumb, I know.

[Clonegeek18]

I’m not a fan of this casting

[Clonegeek18]

Casting Leslie Grace makes sense from a cost standpoint as Batgirl being an HBO Max film would lead it to have a smaller budget compread to a blockbuster.

[TheRealDetectiveChimp]

Their looking to cast a different Jim Gordon.

[NanoDeVice]

Looks like there’s an update on that. We’ll see if negotiations go through but it is J.K. Simmons so they ‘should’ make it work.

‘Batgirl’ Movie: J. K. Simmons in Talks to Return to Batman Universe as...

[bigby65.78080]

So yet again they decide to use a POC instead of actually casting a “ginger”! Barbara Gordon has ALWAYS been portrayed as having red hair!

[NanoDeVice]

Not sure why being a POC is a distinguishing aspect to this “ginger-genocide” concept when DC has cast Caucasian actors to portray “Barbara” in the past and future who aren’t POC and aren’t “ginger”.

In the past Alicia Silverstone played Batgirl/“Barbara”

In the very near future Savannah Welch is playing “Barbara Gordon”

If we want to keep it consistent with the concept of “…actually casting a ‘ginger’ !” let’s take a look at the voice actors:

I personally recommend taking a peak at “I’m Batman voice panel”. Shown during DC Fandome it was a walkthrough and celebration of all these actors of varying backgrounds to have portrayed Batman. Acting is Acting whether Live-Action or Voice-Acting so hopefully more of the world will be accepting of Live-Action people with different backgrounds + ethnicities portraying characters whether be Batman, Batgirl, etc. Just my 2 cents.

DC Fandome INSIDERVERSE I'm Batman Voices Panel

[mercurie80]

Yvonne Craig, the first actress who played Barbara, wasn’t a redhead either. She was brunette. She had her natural brunette hair as Barbara and wore a ginger wig as Batgirl!

[NanoDeVice]

Wow The more ya’ know!
All this time I’ve only seen her image as Batgirl I assumed she was red-head naturally lol

Even when thinking of some famous red-heads in Hollywood like Emma Stone or Amy Adams I realized they aren’t natural red-heads lol