Gotham, meet your new Scarlet Knight! JaviciaLeslie shares the first look at her Batwoman suit.
Rose's Kate Kane was the titular superhero of season 1, though the actressin May. Leslie's casting was announced in July, with the show's creators revealing she would play a new character, Ryan Wilder, taking on the mantle upon Kate's disappearance from Gotham.
Of her iteration of the Batsuit, Leslie teased,"Caroline [Dries, showrunner] and I were talking about how important it is that, if we're going to have a Black Batwoman, that she needs to become a 'sistah' when she becomes Batwoman. It's important for her to feel the silhouette, for her to [have] more of a natural textured hair and things like that."
Said to be the opposite of Kate Kane, Ryan Wilder also marks the first time Batwoman has been Black -- and Leslie has said"I wanted to be a Black superhero. You don't get to see that that often. And then a month later, I become the first Black Batwoman, so I think that that's [fate]," ."It feels really powerful. With everything that's going on right now, this is what we need. We need to see representation."
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