In celebration of Black history, TODAY had the opportunity to sit down with JaviciaLeslie to discuss her ascendance into the role and what real, authentic inclusion looks like to her.
Javicia Leslie told herself in middle school she was going to make history one day. At the time, she didn't know exactly how, but she knew she was destined to do something great.
Batwoman and her sidekick Batwing are searching for a super villain in an episode from season three.Playing Batwoman has layers to it and season three pulled no punches when it resumed in January 2022. The character’s real identity is Ryan Wilder: a young, gay Black woman who grew up in foster care who recently became CEO of Bruce Wayne's multi-million dollar company.
"The amazing part about Ryan, there's so many different communities that she represents just in her existence," Leslie, who identifies as bisexual, said."She's gay. Yeah, she's Black. She's a woman. She's also a foster kid. I've met so many people that will come to me and say, 'This part of Ryan is just like me and my life,' and to me, that right there is just an honor and it makes everything that can seem hard or challenging worth it.
"It was such a honor," she said."One: That's the most amazing part about working with women. Two: It was just so dope because then I could say well, you know what? You're right. Batwoman has thighs, Batwoman has a butt and it's OK." “The whole point of going to an HBCU for a lot of people in America is to show those kids that may not have had access, or may not have been able to see such success in their community, to be able to come to a place where it’s what they could have and what they can do," she said."I had already seen that. So coming there, it was kind of like a norm for me. It made sense to me.”
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