“The Batman” star Zoë Kravitz prompt that racism was behind her being rejected for a job in a earlier “Batman” film.
Kravitz, who performs Catwoman within the present box-office hit headlined by Robert Pattinson as Batman, advised The Guardian this week that she tried to get an audition for director Chris Nolan’s 2012 “The Darkish Knight Rises.”
However she mentioned she was advised she was too “city."
“I don’t know if it got here instantly from Chris Nolan,” she mentioned. “I feel it was most likely a casting director of some form, or a casting director’s assistant. ... Being a girl of colour and being an actor and being advised at the moment that I wasn’t capable of learn due to the colour of my pores and skin, and the phrase city being thrown round like that, that was what was actually exhausting about that second.”
Kravitz emphasised later Tuesday on Instagram that “The Darkish Knight Rises” position she sought wasn’t for Catwoman — it was for “a small half” she didn’t specify.
“The Darkish Knight Rises” starred Christian Bale because the caped crusader and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, the feline-like villain.
Kravitz, whose mother and father are musician Lenny Kravitz and actor Lisa Bonet, beforehand advised Nylon of potential bigotry on “The Darkish Knight Rises.”
“They advised me that I couldn’t get an audition for a small position they had been casting as a result of they weren’t ‘going city,’” she advised the outlet. “It was like, ‘What does that must do with something?’ I've to play the position like, ‘Yo, what’s up, Batman? What’s occurring wit chu?’”
“The Batman,” directed by Matt Reeves, took in practically $130 million in its premiere weekend, injecting hope into the Hollywood field workplace as the newest COVID-19 surge fades.
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