‘Batgirl’ Leslie Grace Responds To Warner Bros Discovery Scrapping DC Pic: “I Feel Blessed To Have Worked Among Absolute Greats”
04.08.2022 - 04:39
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Batgirl star Leslie Grace has responded to Warner Bros. discarding of the DC film on social media, and they weren’t words of bitterness, just gratefulness to be on the journey.
“Querida familia! On the heels of the recent news about our movie ‘Batgirl,’ I am proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film over 7 months in Scotland. I feel blessed to have worked among absolute greats and forged relationships for a lifetime in the process! To every Batgirl fan – THANK YOU for the love and belief, allowing me to take on the cape and become, as Babs said best, “my own damn hero!” Batgirl for life!” wrote the CAA-repped actress.
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Grace won the part of Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl after a final round that included Isabella Merced, Zoey Deutch and Haley Lu Richardson as Deadline’s Justin Kroll first reported. Her previous feature credits include Warner Bros.’ In the Heights in which she played the part of Nina Rosario.
Grace’s response comes in the wake of the DC pic’s directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah who firmly expressed this morning they were “saddened and shocked by the news” about Batgirl‘s axing and that it was “critical that our work be shown to audiences”. As Deadline told you yesterday the duo first learned of the news when they were in Morocco for El Arbi’s wedding.
Yesterday, news leaked that Warner Bros Discovery killed Batgirl, two days before its quarterly earnings, to take advantage of a “purchase accounting” maneuver available to the conglom given the fact that the company changed hands. That opportunity expires in mid-August, and allows WBD to not have to carry the losses on its books at a time when the
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