Lena Headey has been working wonders in Westeros as Cersei Lannister, and while she's already played a comic book villain in the underrated Dredd, there's a more popular one who probably suits her more.
Headey possesses all the qualities to make Ivy both sympathetic and suitably villainous. Both components are essential to the character, with Ivy having taken on a decidedly more heroic role in the comics as of late, but the audience still needs to believe that Ivy has a ruthless streak to her - something Headey has been able to embody perfectly throughout her stint on HBO's fantasy show.
Like Catwoman and Harley, Ivy is slated to appear in David Ayer's adaptation of Gotham City Sirens, a comic all about the town's premier femme-fatales. Whether that comes before or after Birds of Prey is still unknown, but having Gotham's biggest heroes team up with their biggest villains is a surefire way of getting people excited, especially if Headey is bringing life to a character yet to be done right on the big screen.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
