Brendan Fraser on ‘Batgirl’ Shelving: A ‘Tragedy’ for '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, ‘She looks like me,’” he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press .

The shelved film stars Afro-Dominican actress Leslie Grace in the titular role and she would have represented the first Batgirl to headline her own film. The cast also included Ivory Aquino as the first openly transgender character in a DC Comics movie (Aq