Ruby Rose leaves the Batwoman before season 2 - Evan Agostini / AP / SIPA

They thought they had found the gem, but the Batwoman casters will eventually have to get back to work. At the end of May, Ruby Rose, the main actress of the series, announced that she would not don the costume of the superheroine after the first season, without giving more explanations on her motivations. Broadcast on the American channel The CW, the series will therefore have to find a new headliner, and has even decided to make the character of Kate Kane disappear.

No other actress will replace Ruby Rose in the role of Batman's cousin, according to information from Decider . Season 2 of the series will focus on a new character, that of Ryan Wilder, presented as "the kind of dangerous fighter, highly skilled and madly unruly." An assumed lesbian. Athletic. Brute. Passionate. Fallible. Far from the stereotype of the classic heroine ”, in the words of the casting sheet.

Warner Bros, who produces the series, said that the one who succeeds Ruby Rose will be a non-heterosexual actress. First homosexual superheroine, Kate Kane has marked the history of the DC Comics universe, and the writers of Batwoman intend to go in this direction of history.

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