{"id":2221922,"date":"2026-01-04T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2221922"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T18:41:07","slug":"simu-liu-nominates-melissa-barrera-to-play-wonder-woman-just-throwing-it-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/simu-liu-nominates-melissa-barrera-to-play-wonder-woman-just-throwing-it-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Simu Liu Nominates Melissa Barrera To Play Wonder Woman: \u201cJust Throwing It Out There\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite his current MCU ties, Simu Liu<\/a> has some ideas for James Gunn<\/a>\u2018s Dcu after going toe-to-toe with Melissa Barrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Copenhagen Test actor recently praised his co-star\u2019s onscreen combat skills, which he called \u201cWonder<\/a> Woman<\/a>-esque\u201d and went so far as to shoutout the DC Studios<\/a> boss with the fantasy casting.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe really pushes herself,\u201d he told JoBlo of Barrera. \u201cI don\u2019t know who might be listening to this interview, James Gunn or anybody else out there. But I think she really pushes herself. There were a couple of moments during stunt training where I was like, \u2018That\u2019s Wonder Woman<\/a>-esque.\u2019 I\u2019m just throwing it out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July, Gunn<\/a> gave an update that his team is \u201cnot casting WW, nor even discussing it, until a script is finished,\u201d adding: \u201cIt\u2019s a priority but I wouldn\u2019t call that fast-tracked. Nothing is going…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite his current MCU ties, Simu Liu has some ideas for James Gunn\u2018s Dcu after going toe-to-toe with Melissa Barrera. The Copenhagen Test actor recently praised his co-star\u2019s onscreen combat skills, which he called \u201cWonder Woman-esque\u201d and went so far as to shoutout the DC Studios boss with the fantasy casting. \u201cShe really pushes herself,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2221923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2221922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Simu-Liu-Nominates-Melissa-Barrera-To-Play-Wonder-Woman-Just.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221924,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221922\/revisions\/2221924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}