Captain America didn't "necessarily" rework Sabra character due to backlash

This version of Ruth Bat-Seraph, played by Shira Haas, “has very much, I would argue, the attitude of the character from publishing, but the backstory is different,” producer Nate Moore tells The National in a new interview.  “She’s no longer a mutant. She’s a part of the Red Room [from Black Widow]. You want to make the best version of a character—be honest to the roots of the character without not necessarily doing what publishing did. We weren’t about to put her in a feather boa and have her throw diamond earrings at people [such as in the comic books] but we did like the attitude of the character.”

Conveniently, that means Marvel has dropped the Mossad part of the character. “What we thought was interesting was a lot of the characters in the film revolve around President Thaddeus Ross [Harrison Ford],” Moore explains. “Ruth works within the government under Ross, so her perspective on that character and Sam’s perspective sort of put them on a collision course. She’s first-generation Israeli, but she works within the US government.”

Moore claims that a major motivation in adapting this character from the comic books was that the studio wanted to work with Haas. “She’s so talented, she’s so unique, both in her look and her performance style. We thought this was the perfect marriage,” he says. The film’s director Julius Onah similarly praised the actor, saying she “just did a fantastic job” with the role. In his words, “the Ruth of this movie is her own unique character that ended up becoming a great part of the tapestry of the paranoid thriller we wanted to make.”