If you pick up the recently released “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths” DVD or BluRay, you will hear a lot familiar favorites lending their voices to bring the animated movie to life. One of them is long-time Mutant Enemy alum, Gina Torres, best known for her work on “Firefly.” For the newly released movie, Torres lends her voice to Superwoman.
Speaking to Wired, Torres said that she likes the world of comic books for female roles because there “aren’t really any skinny bitches. They’ve got muscle.”
Torres went on to say that she likes the fact that in the comic book universe that her character is able to go toe to toe with the Man of Steel and other popular D.C. icons as well as the fact that she has curves.
“What I love about superheroes, and Superwoman in particular,” Torres said, “is that in that comics world they’re all curvaceous. They’re strong. And it’s important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren’t afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren’t afraid of taking chances, women who aren’t afraid of their own power.”
“Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and magical about you,” she said.
“I don’t know if that’s necessarily relegated to being a woman, because we’re all so worried about fitting in and not sticking out. [But] what’s great about this whole genre is that it’s all about sticking out. It’s all about being magnificent to the highest power.”
I so want to see Ms. Torres cast as Susannah in The Gunslinger movies JJ Abrams is supposedly going to do.
Awesome… love her so much.