Most of the buzz swirling around HBO Max so far bat girl focused on four characters in particular, but that was to be expected given that they were the subject of virtually all of the set photos and videos that were uploaded during production.
Leslie Grace’s Barbara Gordon, JK Simmons’ Gotham City Returning Police Commissioner, Michael Keaton’s Batman and Brendan Fraser’s Firefly make for a heck of a central quartet for a streaming DCEU exclusive, but aside from Ivory Aquino’s Alysia Yeoh, this has not been confirmed. who plays the rest of the set.
Rising star Jacob Scipio finds his bad boys for life directors Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah for bat girland in an interview with PopSugar he offered new details about his mysterious role, including confirmation that he was playing someone straight from the comics.
“Obviously I have to choose my words very carefully here because my language is pretty tied in with that. But I can say my character is in the comics. He wants to make Gotham a better place. And he’s in a situation with Batgirl. Let’s just say that.
Scipio is very much on the rise, having also boarded Consumables 4provided support in Nicolas Cage’s action meta-comedy The unbearable weight of massive talent and appeared in a well-received mystery thriller Last Looks since he was revealed as a key cog in the bat girl machine, so it’s very likely that he’ll have a substantial presence in the story of the title hero’s rise to becoming Gotham’s other night vigilante.