Does Wright have to be either Dominican or Latino? What about Barbara's mother? And just because Leslie Grace has Dominican parents doesn't mean that Babs has that ethnicity. It's enough to say that the Gordons are a blended family.
From what I've read, Grace is Dominican and Wright is African-American. They could just say her mother is Dominican as Otaku says. If they're even going the route that she is Jim's biological daughter. This version could be Jim's niece and he adopted her, then no issue at all really.
Yeah, I didn't want to go with the adopted niece route since (if I remember right) that ultimately led to Jim still being Barbara's father due to him having conceived her with his (future?) sister-in-law.
I guess the question is if she can pass for a half-black child, which I feel like opens a completely different can of worms that they will probably avoid by just recasting Gordon thanks to The Flash movie.
Well, naturally, they can omit that part...
In that case (mixed race child), there is no issue.
Yeah, but the actress isn't mixed race (as far as I'm aware), although I'm not sure how that would pass if they were to portray her as such...
I've known Dominican's from NYC. They can pass for both African American and Latino. I think Wright has played both. Remember him in Shaft (2000)? As mentioned, the key to this is Babs mother at this point.
That was... unexpected to say the least.
I'll admit, J.K. Simmons is not the first actor that comes to mind as the biological father to Leslie Grace's Barbara Gordon. Though that might depend on her mother. I guess Jim could be her stepdad.
Or maybe they just don't address it
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Don't you mean niece he possibly fathered out of an affair
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Just as I thought since I knew very well that Batgirl was going to be set in the DCEU.
Idk, I was almost suspecting this would set-off an HBOmax Bat-verse or something like that. I wasn't exactly beholden to what's been established. Though, the rumor is Zaslav is a fan of Snyder's DCEU (not necessarily just his stuff, but what he set up).
Well, I wasn't. I was definitely hoping that the film was going to be set in the DCEU since day 1 all the way when Whedon was involved and the reports that Simmons is in talks to reprise his role for this gives me the impression that it will be set in said universe.
Well, it all but confirmed that as fact. Based on WW, Aquaman, Suicide Squad, Harley, Shazam & Black Adam, I think it's here to stay for the time being. We'll see about the future DC installments.
