‘Batgirl’ Star Leslie Grace Shares Behind-the-Scenes of Canceled Movie

Leslie Grace, the star of the now-canceled DC Comics movie “Batgirl,” has shared extra behind-the-scenes footage of the manufacturing, practically two months after the challenge was axed by Warner Bros. Discovery.

“I couldn’t resist,” Grace wrote within the description for a TikTok that she posted on Saturday morning. Set to “Evergreen” by Omar Apollo, the video incorporates footage of Grace by means of numerous phases of manufacturing, recording herself with a Gotham hero’s signature smokey eye make-up, rehearsing complicated struggle choreography and taking a wire-assisted tumble in entrance of a blue display screen. The video concludes with Grace, grinning, driving a mechanical rocking horse within the full purple Batgirl costume, full with goggles and a leather-based jacket.

In early August, Warner Bros. Discovery formally confirmed that it might not launch “Batgirl,” regardless of the manufacturing having accomplished principal pictures and a big fraction of its post-production timeline. The movie, which was developed for an HBO Max launch, wouldn’t be distributed theatrically or shopped round to different studios, permitting the corporate to take a tax write-off on the challenge — a choice that was internally believed to make extra monetary sense than a business launch.

“Querida familia! On the heels of the latest information about our film ‘Batgirl,’ I’m pleased with the love, laborious work and intention all of our unimaginable solid and tireless crew put into this movie over 7 months in Scotland,” Grace wrote on Instagram in her first public response to the information of the movie’s cancellation. Her message was accompanied by extra behind-the-scenes footage from the movie. “I really feel blessed to have labored amongst absolute greats and solid relationships for a lifetime within the course of! To each Batgirl fan – THANK YOU for the love and perception, permitting me to tackle the cape and grow to be, as Babs stated finest, ‘my very own rattling hero!’ Batgirl for all times!”