{"id":352873,"date":"2026-01-05T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:00:15","slug":"shang-chi-star-simu-liu-endorses-melissa-barrera-for-dcus-wonder-woman-shes-a-total-badass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/352873\/","title":{"rendered":"SHANG-CHI Star Simu Liu Endorses Melissa Barrera For DCU’s Wonder Woman: “She’s A Total Badass”"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of 2023, Spyglass Entertainment announced that they had fired lead star Melissa Barrera from Scream 7 following comments she made on social media about the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n

The decision was met with a largely negative response from fans of the slasher series, and\u00a0co-lead Jenna Ortega then also decided to step away from the horror franchise. Director Christopher Landon followed, and in what now promises to be a nostalgia-heavy next chapter, the spotlight has shifted to\u00a0Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott and her daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given\u00a0the support Barrera received from fans and her fellow actors,\u00a0her career hasn’t suffered too much of a setback since being dropped from Scream 7. In fact, she remains a fan-favourite choice for the role of Wonder Woman in the DCU (the hero is expected to debut in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel,\u00a0Man of Tomorrow).<\/p>\n

Doing the rounds to promote Peacock’s\u00a0The Copenhagen Test alongside Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu, Barrera received her co-star’s endorsement to follow Gal Gadot as the new\u00a0Diana Prince.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“James Gunn or anybody else out there, I think she really pushes herself,” Liu started, adding, “There were a couple of moments during stunt training where I was like ‘That\u2019s Wonder Woman-esque.’\u00a0I don\u2019t know who\u2019s watching or listening to this interview, but I just think she\u2019s a total badass.”<\/p>\n

Liu’s comments have quickly spread on social media, and there does appear to be a fair bit of excitement among DC fans surrounding the possibility of Barrera playing the Amazon.<\/p>\n

Gunn is no stranger to controversy after resurfaced Tweets from several years earlier led to Disney firing him from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (he was eventually re-hired after widespread backlash), so we can’t imagine he’d object to Barrera auditioning. Recently, we got an update on the type of actress the filmmaker is looking for<\/a>\u00a0to fill this role.<\/p>\n

Last April,\u00a0Barrera herself weighed in on the Wonder Woman fan-casts.\u00a0“A friend that told me that. He’s on Twitter. I haven’t been on Twitter in a really long time, but he told me a year ago or something like that. I was like, ‘Oh interesting.’ I think it’s nice because of what the character represents.”<\/p>\n

“I think whoever gets the role, I just hope that they can embody the essence of the character because I think that those movies, whether they’re Marvel or DC, their reach is so big,” she continued.\u00a0“Those artists who get those roles will inevitably get a built-in fanbase and have the eyes and the ears of so many people.”<\/p>\n

“I think that it would be nice if they did something actually positive with the influence that they have to at least be a good example of the kind of human being that you wanna be in the world, instead of just using it for self-serving purposes,” Barrera concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We’ll see what happens, but you can watch our 2022 interview with the Scream franchise alum in the player below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of 2023, Spyglass Entertainment announced that they had fired lead star Melissa Barrera from Scream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,80110,2839,56,54,55,9412],"class_list":["post-352873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-melissa-barrera","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wonder-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}