Brendan Fraser Called The "Batgirl" Cancellation A Devastating Blow For Representation

Brendan Fraser Called The "Batgirl" Cancellation A Devastating Blow For Representation

"The tragedy of that is that there’s a generation of little girls who don't have a heroine to look up to and go, 'She looks like me.'"View Entire Post ›

Brendan Fraser Calls Shelving ‘Batgirl’ a ‘Tragedy’ for a ‘Generation of Little Girls’

Brendan Fraser addressed Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to shelve the completed Batgirl movie, in which he plays Firefly. In a new interview, he called out the studio’s decision in 2022 to cancel the film’s release, discussing how it impacts a “generation of girls” and how movies are being detrimentally “commodified” by Hollywood. “The tragedy of that is that there’s a generation of little girls who don’t have a heroine to look up to and go…