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Toure Show

Javicia Leslie–I'm Batwoman

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Javicia Leslie is the star of Batwoman on the CW and she’s an amazingly inspiring young actress who’s out and proud and living her best life. We talk about playing Batwoman, succeeding as an actress, and how easy it was to come out to her mom. To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Toure Show Episode 240 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Gervisia Leslie is starring on the CW's Bat Woman as Bat Woman and she takes really seriously her role in helping inspire younger

0:29.2

black lesbians listen to her. It's weird because

0:37.0

I feel like I get to see some of it through social media

0:41.0

through like tweets and IG comments and stuff, but I've also had to protect my

0:46.9

psyche because these people are crazy, not them, like the people that don't like the

0:55.0

that don't like the direction or show is going in,

0:57.6

you know, they can be louder sometimes.

1:00.4

And I have to make sure I protect my mental health more than anything.

1:04.0

So I'm not as active on social media as I would love to be, you know, like I would love to hear more from the people that are impacted.

1:12.0

Are you saying they don't... for some of the people that are impacted.

1:13.3

Are you saying they don't like the transition

1:16.7

to the show being led by a black woman?

1:19.8

Because you fell in love with a show that was starred by a trans woman, right?

1:27.6

So now you have a black woman.

1:29.6

I mean like, that's your problem, you were accepting of that and this is your problem?

1:36.3

At the end of the day, that woman originally in the comic books

1:40.5

was a white lesbian woman.

1:44.0

The first casting a bat woman was a white lesbian woman.

1:49.0

Then you cast a new bat woman who is a black woman that doesn't make sense to them because it does

1:56.1

not go in alignment with the original character so if you are a King fan, it's not even just about being binary. I don't know if it would, I know my race plays a huge part of it, but there's also just an issue that my bad woman isn't the original

2:18.6

bad woman.

2:19.6

The original bat woman is Kate Kane.

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