The CW wrapped up the second season of Batwoman last night where Caroline Dries serves as the season’s showrunner. What we learned after that episode was that Dougary Scott has departed the series and that Wallis Day’s coming on board as Kate Kane after Ruby Rose had left has wrapped up that storyline and Day has departed as well.
So that leaves us with a few positions that can be filled and the production has already announced once of them. With word that Robin Givens had joined as Jada Jet, we now have learned that Victoria Cartagena has joined to take on the role of Renee Montoya. This isn’t a stretch for the actress as she played the same character in Gotham, though this will obviously be a very different interpretation overall and not connected to that prior role.
Cartagena’s Montoya is a former GCPD officer who left the force when she could no longer stomach the corruption inside the department. She now runs the “freaks division,” which hasn’t seen a lot of action… until now. Righteous and pragmatic, and LGBTQ+, she’s a woman with a very personal (and mysterious) mission to help clean the streets of Gotham in the right way, by whatever means necessary.
Givens most recently appeared regularly on Riverdale, which comes from Berlanti Productions as well.
The main cast includes Javicia Leslie as Ryan Wilder / Batwoman, Rachel Skarsten as Beth Kane / Alice, Meagan Tandy as Sophie Moore, Nicole Kang as Mary Hamilton, and Camrus Johnson as Luke Fox.
Plot Concept: Three years after billionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter-ego Batman disappeared, his cousin Kate Kane sets out to overcome her demons and become a symbol of hope by protecting the streets of Gotham City as Batwoman.
[Source: Deadline]
