María Gabriela de Faría’s Angela Spicer, a.k.a. The Engineer, was one of Lex Luthor’s two main sources of muscle (and maybe a romantic interest ) during the events of Superman . The nanotechnology in her body made her a formidable threat to David Corenswet’s Man of Steel in the 2025 movie release . As it turns out, de Faria came close to working with writer and director James Gunn earlier through his previous DC movie, The Suicide Squad . Unfortunately, a language barrier issue stopped that from happening.
During her appearance on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum , María Gabriela de Faría recalled to the title host, who played Lex Luthor in the TV series Smallville , how she’d recently told Gunn that she was so “starstruck” by him during her The Suicide Squad audit