The solid of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s HBO Max movie Batgirl retains rising, as we speak including a finest buddy for Barbara Gordon: Ivory Aquino, who’ll play bartender Alysia Yeoh—a former roommate of Barbara’s who additionally occurs to be certainly one of DC Comics’ most notable trans characters. Deadline reported the information.

Beforehand, Aquino performed transgender civil rights chief Cecilia Chung in ABC’s 2017 docuseries When We Rise, which explored the historical past of LGBT activism in the US; she additionally appeared in Ava DuVernay’s 2019 Netflix collection When They See Us. Right here she joins a solid that features Leslie Grace (Within the Heights) within the title function and J.Okay. Simmons as Batgirl/Barbara’s father, Gotham Metropolis police commissioner Jim Gordon.

As well as: Michael Keaton is (famously) set to reprise his function as Batman circa the Tim Burton films, whereas Brendan Fraser is taking part in the villain (though we don’t know but which villain). With a script from Christine Hodson (Bumblebee, Birds of Prey), tailored from the comics by author Gail Simone and artist Ardian Syaf, Batgirl is anticipated to reach on HBO Max later this yr.

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