Zoë Kravitz Was Told She Was Too ‘Urban’ to Audition for The Dark Knight Rises

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The Batman, the new dark superhero flick starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne. But Kravitz wanted to enter the Batverse ten years ago, when Christopher Nolan was completing his Dark Knight trilogy with 2012's The Dark Knight Rises (in which played Selina Kyle).

In a recent interview she revealed that she didn't get to audition for that movie because of her mixed race heritage.After submitted herself for an audition, she heard the feedback that she was “too urban" for the role she wanted, a loaded term with racial connotations. “I don’t know if it came directly from Chris Nolan,” she said, per . “I think it was probably a casting director of some kind, or a casting director’s assistant…Being a woman of colour and being an actor and being told at that time that I wasn’t able to read because of the colour of my skin, and the word urban being thrown around like that, that was what was really hard about that moment.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.But after several outlets picked up the story with the framing that Selina Kyle was the role she was after, Kravitz took to Instagram Stories on Tuesday, March 8 to clear things up.“I was NOT told I was too urban to play Catwoman in The Dark Knight,” she writes. “It would have made NO sense for me to even be considered for that role at that time.

I wanted to AUDITION for a small part in the film 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." She continues, “I 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.