Zoë Kravitz has recently clarified the comments she previously made about wanting to audition for The Dark Knight Rises. The Batman actress took to her Instagram Story and penned, “I was NOT told I was too urban to play Catwoman in The Dark Knight.” The actress who plays Catwoman in the newly released The Batman continues, “I wanted to AUDITION for a small part in the film.
She continues, “and was told (I do not know who said this but this is how it was worded to me) that they were not going ‘urban’ on the part.” “This is something I heard a lot 10 years ago, it was a very different time.” Kravitz’s initial comments came in the recent interview with the Observer where she discussed how she intended to audition for a role in the 2012 sequel The Dark Knight Rises, directed by Christopher Nolan.
Kravitz stated, “I don’t know if it came directly from Chris Nolan. I think it was probably a casting director of some kind or a casting director’s assistant.” The actress went on saying, “Being a woman of color and being an actor and being told at that time that I wasn’t able to read because of the color of my skin, and the word urban being thrown around like that, that was what was really hard about that moment.
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The star added in her Observer interview that she has come to realize how to see the positive in rejections, “Even though it’s sometimes hard to see that in the moment, usually a few years later, you’re like, ‘Okay, this is why this didn’t happen.'” Meanwhile, on her Instagram Story, Kravitz clarified that she “did not mention this to point any fingers or make anyone seem racist, namely Chris Nolan, the film’s producers or anyone on the casting team because I truly do not believe anyone meant any harm.”
Zoe Kravitz further added, “I was simply giving an example of what it was like to be a woman of color in this industry at that time.” “Again this was many years ago when words like that were thrown around very casually and although I’m very glad that we are attempting to evolve let’s all calm down as well as fact check before we write things that are untrue.”