Batgirl’s Leslie Grace on Being a Superhero and Her Hero’s Future

The upcoming Batgirl film is anticipated to be a reasonably large deal when it hits HBO Max within the close to future. Not simply within the sense that it’s the primary cinematic outing for Barbara Gordon since Batman & Robin all the way in which again in 1997, but additionally for bringing Michael Keaton again because the Caped Crusader. Sure, we’ve identified for awhile that he can be again for the position because of information surrounding the oft-delayed Flash film, however there’s nonetheless one thing to be mentioned for seeing him come again as an older Bruce Wayne and doubtlessly taking a protégé below his wing.

While chatting with Variety in regards to the movie, star Leslie Grace was requested in regards to the feeling of seeing Keaton again in motion, which she described as “wild for everyone.” She was, in fact, very obscure about what to anticipate from Keaton within the movie, however she known as working with him “the stuff of her dreams, I couldn’t even believe that I was sharing space with Batman.” It was additionally equally surreal for her to work with Brendan Fraser, who performs the movie’s villain Firefly. “I’m not supposed to like him, but he’s such a huge teddy bear,” continued Grace. Praising his earlier motion film expertise because of The Mummy franchise, she teased the battle scenes in retailer: “There’s crazy fire. Crazy stunts, crazy drops. She’s [Batgirl] a biker chick, so you’re going to see her do a bunch of badassery.”

Batgirl is Grace’s second position after final 12 months’s In the Heights, and the feeling of enjoying a superhero solely hit her as soon as she lastly donned the costume for the primary time. “That was the first real moment where I was like, ‘Oh, wow, we’re here. I’m doing this. Like, I am really Batgirl.’” Being a superhero, she admitted, was relatively overwhelming, to the purpose the place she didn’t assume to ask earlier Batgirl Alicia Silverstone or Gal Gadot for his or her experiences. She didn’t go in utterly blind, although: she reached out to Sasha Calle, the Supergirl of the Flash film, and Blue Beetle’s Xolo Maridueña. “I’m hoping we get to meet soon, because we’re part of the new gen.”

In Grace’s phrases, there’s “so much” that occurs within the Batgirl film. ““There’s this love story, there’s this father-daughter relationship. There’s looking at the world through a lens that isn’t just black and white.” With how common Batman media tends to be, she was naturally requested about the potential of seeing her Babs once more sooner or later. Even although the DC movies are in frequent (if not constant) flux, she did admit that there’s presently discussions a few second Batgirl movie. But clearly, nothing concrete but. “We’ve already been talking about where do we take this from here,” she mentioned. “But we got to see this one first. There’s definitely some talks about what it could be.”

Batgirl will launch on HBO Max later this 12 months.

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