María Gabriela de Faría’s Angela Spicer, a.k.a. The Engineer, was one of Lex Luthor’s two main sources of muscle (and maybe a romantic interest) during the events of Superman. The nanotechnology in her body made her a formidable threat to David Corenswet’s Man of Steel in the 2025 movie release. As it turns out, de Faria came close to working with writer and director James Gunn earlier through his previous DC movie, The Suicide Squad. Unfortunately, a language barrier issue stopped that from happening.
During her appearance on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, María Gabriela de Faría recalled to the title host, who played Lex Luthor in the TV series Smallville, how she’d recently told Gunn that she was so “starstruck” by him during her The Suicide Squad audition that she bombed it. The actress said “it was so sad,” then continued:
