The star of 'The Batman' suggested that bigotry has been a villain in the superhero franchise.
Kravitz, who plays Catwoman in the current box-office hit headlined by Robert Pattinson as Batman,Advertisement“I don’t know if it came directly from Chris Nolan,” she said. “I think it was probably a casting director of some kind, or a casting director’s assistant. ... 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.
Zoë Kravitz, pictured at"The Batman" premiere, hinted bigotry was behind her being unable to secure an audition for an earlier movie in the superhero franchise.“The Dark Knight Rises” starred Christian Bale as the caped crusader and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, the feline-like villain.on “The Dark Knight Rises.”“They told me that I couldn’t get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren’t ‘going urban,’” she told the outlet.