Leslie Grace responds to ‘Batgirl’ ‘unreleasable’ claim: “The film that I got to see was incredible”
13.02.2023 - 20:31
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Leslie Grace has spoken at length for the first time about Batgirl‘s cancellation.The actress was due to star as the titular character Barbara Gordon in the DC film, which was shelved last year despite finishing production. It was claimed at the time that it received poor test screenings, and that the film was reportedly written off for tax purposes.Speaking to Variety about finding out about the axing, Grace revealed she learned the news when it broke in the media, recalling: “I found out like the rest of you.
And then my phone just started blowing up.”Reflecting further on how she felt then, the star admitted: “It was like deflating a balloon. On that day, I was very much just taking it all in, but also so sure of the magic that happened — in my experience and what I saw in my cast, in our team — that I was like, ‘This must be some crazy thing that we have no control over.’“I tend to be a very optimistic and positive person in these types of circumstances, and I just really leaned on the beauty of the idea that I got to have this experience in my life.
Even though I would’ve loved to share that with the rest of the world, nothing can take that experience away from us.”New DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran said last month that Batgirl was “not releasable” and “would’ve hurt DC”, and Grace was pressed on whether she felt those comments were justifiable.“I had my own meetings with Warner Bros. Film Group CEOs Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca, and they explained to me, on a granular level, what they felt about the project, things that were out of their hands, plans and budgets that were set in place before they were even part of the team,” she replied.“There are a lot of things that I learned through the experience about
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