Actress Ivory Aquino will play the first transgender character in a DC movie. She has been confirmed to play Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon’s roommate and best friend in the coming years. batgirlpromised to arrive on HBO Max sometime in 2022.
And despite not being any protagonist, the casting of Aquino as Alysia has been much celebrated because of the representativeness of her participation. Both the actress and the character are trans women and to see that brought to the screen is something very significant.
Could this be our first look at Alysia Yeoh on the set of #Batgirl? This character was created by @GailSimone & Ardian Syaf for Batgirl (vol. 4) #1 in 2011 🦇
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The protagonist of the long, Leslie Grace, was very excited about the casting.
In her social networks, she shared a scene during the filming in which the two crossed the street and tagged her friend, also celebrating the partnership that the characters have in the comics. In addition, other images released on social media already showed the two together.
But, despite the fact that the actress’ participation is a milestone in DC’s films, Alysia Yeoh is not the first transgender character from the publisher to get a live-action version. On the Serie supergirlthe heroine Dreamer was the first trans woman to wear a uniform in a TV series.
Still promised for 2022, batgirl has yet to have any major details about its plot revealed. At most, we know that Michael Keaton will return to the role of Batman and that JK Simmons will return to the role of Commissioner Gordon, father of the heroine.
