The cast of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah ’s HBO Max film Batgirl keeps grow , today add a best friend forBarbara Gordon : Ivory Aquino , who ’ll play barman Alysia Yeoh — a former roommate of Barbara ’s who also chance to be one of DC Comics ’ most notabletrans characters . Deadlinereported the news .
Previously , Aquino played transgender civil rights leader Cecilia Chung in ABC ’s 2017 docuseries When We arise , which explore the chronicle of LGBT activism in the United States ; she also appear inAva DuVernay ’s 2019 Netflix serial When They See Us . Here she joins a cast that includesLeslie Grace(In the Heights ) in the deed of conveyance part andJ.K. Simmonsas Batgirl / Barbara ’s father , Gotham City police commissioner Jim Gordon .
In accession : Michael Keaton is ( famously)set to recapitulate his role as Batmancirca the Tim Burton movies , whileBrendan Fraseris play the villain ( although we do n’t know yet which villain ) . With a script fromChristine Hodson(Bumblebee , Birds of Prey ) , adapt from the comics by author Gail Simone and creative person Ardian Syaf , Batgirl is expected to arrive on HBO Max later this year .
Ivory Aquino at the 2018 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for 2018 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony (Getty Images)
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