Leslie Grace teases the “badassery” of her Batgirl movie, Michael Keaton’s return as Batman
The In The Heights star will don the purple suit in HBO Max's upcoming superhero adaption
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Since the release of Batman (1966), the world has been gifted with movie after movie about the Caped Crusader. From campy to grizzled realism, we’ve seen the many masks of Batman—there was even a emo, younger version released this year! The time has finally come for one of Gotham’s other bat-related vigilantes to answer the call of the Bat Signal: Leslie Grace’s purple outfitted Batgirl AKA Barbara Gordon.
In an interview with Variety, Grace gave us some hints about to what’s to come in Batgirl, teasing stunts, fire, and… you guessed it: more stunts.
“There’s some crazy stuff that happens,” says Grace. “There’s lots of fire because as everyone knows by now, [Brendan Fraser] plays Firefly. There’s crazy fire. There’s crazy stunts, crazy drops. She’s a biker chick, so you’re going to see her do a bunch of badassery.”
Grace discussed how Fraser (the greatest dude around) helped her throughout scenes in which she fights his pyromaniac supervillain character.
“It was an incredible learning experience to be on set with also action veterans like Brendan Fraser, and soak up it all up,” she says about The Mummy star. “It was so hard because he’s our villain and I’m not supposed to like him but he’s such a huge teddy bear. He is one of the nicest people that I’ve ever met. In our fight sequences the way he would just hit marks, it came from all of his experience. You can’t improvise that kind of experience.”
The interview also gives us a tiny bit of information about Michael Keaton’s role in the film. Keaton will likely be reprising his iconic version of Batman first seen in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. If not exactly Batman, maybe Keaton will become the older mentor version of Bruce Wayne seen in the animated series Batman Beyond.
Seeing Keaton on set was apparently “wild for everyone,” according to Grace. “I couldn’t even believe that I was sharing space with Batman. I want to say more, but I can’t. It was insane, surreal, incredible.”
Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi are directing the film, with a screenplay written by Christina Hodson (Birds Of Prey). Starring alongside Grace is J.K. Simmons, Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, Ivory Aquino (Lapsis), Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys For Life), Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It), Corey Johnson (Morbius), and Ethan Kai (Killing Eve).
Batgirl is set to fly onto HBO Max in 2022
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Michael Keaton is such a great choice for Batman here and makes me so much more hyped for this film as they can actually play a lot with the mentorship here.It was also kind of wild to realize that we already have three versions of Batman where if that actor coming back in a role like this I would be excited: Keaton, Affleck and Bale. Although admittably with the last one the issue is that the Nolan version tied up taht Batman’s story so neatly, but I would be genuinely shocked if we didn’t see an old Bruce cameo from him in fifteen, twenty years.
Wait is J.K. Simmons reprising Gordon here? I’m so confused.
No, he’s actually playing Commissioner Jameson in this one. The multiverse is some crazy shit.
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I’m excited to see how Brendan Fraser does as Firefly. It’ll be interesting seeing how he does as a villain considering he already killed it playing reluctant hero Cliff Steele/Robot Man in the Doom Patrol show (also on HBO Max for those wondering). I’m not worried though, he was a pretty solid villain alongside Ray Liotta in No Sudden Move, even if his role wasn’t a very big one.
a emo —> an emopurple outfitted —> purple-outfittedHBO Max in 2022 —> HBO Max in 2022.
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In what universe is “a emo” correct?
“I saw a emo, then beat him up.” – Northeast vernacular
Feh. Northeast Fumbduckery!
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Language evolves, but not in the time between writing an article and someone writing corrections a few hours later.
This article is intended as a pop culture news piece, and so there are literacy rules appropriate to such work.
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Barbara Gordon, as Batgirl, may get around on a purple motorcycle with a flower basket at the front, but she s not a “biker chick.”
Is this a TV movie or will it get a theatrical release?
“She’s a biker chick” so nice they’re staying close to the source material! Lol.Just give us an accurate Cassandra Cain for Christ’s sake…