Why friends say ‘Batgirl’ Leslie Grace is ready to move on from disaster
nypost.comabruptly shelved by Warner Bros. and HBO — and that many of the cast and crew first found out via that story.But Sayuri Chacon told The Post Thursday that her old friend will be OK. “Leslie is the type of person who always takes lessons away from her experience.
She’s constantly evolving in that way,” said Chacon, who met Grace, 27, at a youth retreat in South Florida. “She knows that when it’s right for you, it’s for you, and when it’s not, it isn’t.
She is going to be fine.”“This was training for her,” Chacon added. “It’s a stepping stone to take her to the next thing.”Grace got her Caped Crusader role on the heels of her breakout role in Lin Manuel Miranda’s 2021 movie musical “In the Heights,” but her career actually started when she was a young teen.Born in the Bronx and raised in Davie, Fla., she signed her first recording contract at 16 and, at 17, became the youngest Latin female artist to land the No.
1 spot on the Billboard Latin music charts for her bilingual cover of Carole King’s “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.”“She was already touring by 11th or 12th grade,” recalled Brandon Monse, Grace’s chorus teacher at Western High School in Davie. “She’s so talented and genuine in her dedication to music and performing.
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