Zoë Kravitz Wanted to Audition for a 2012 Batman Film. She Was Told She Was Too ‘Urban’
Julian Mark, Washington Post, March 8, 2022
About a decade before Zoë Kravitz starred as Catwoman in Matt Reeves’s “The Batman,” she tried to audition for another Batman movie, Kravitz explained in a recent interview with the Observer. But at that time, Kravitz said, she couldn’t get her foot in the door, not even for a small role.
The problem?
She was too “urban,” Kravitz, 33, told the Observer of her attempt to audition for Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film “The Dark Knight Rises.”
“Being a woman of colour and being an actor and being told at that time that I wasn’t able to read [lines] 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,” she told the British newspaper.
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Kravitz, the daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz and actor Lisa Bonet, previously spoke about the audition rejection in a 2015 Nylon profile. Without specifying who made the comments, she remembered being told she wouldn’t be cast even for a small role because the film wasn’t “going urban.”
“It was like, ‘What does that have to do with anything?’ ” Kravitz told the magazine. “I have to play the role like, ‘Yo, what’s up, Batman? What’s going on wit chu?’ ”
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