Zoë Kravitz Recalls Being Told She Was Too ‘Urban’ To Star In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

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She may be the star of the new Batman movie, but once upon a time, Zoë Kravitz was denied a role in the franchise because of her skin colour.

In an interview with The Observer, Kravitz shared that she had wanted to audition for 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises”, directed by Christopher Nolan, but she was turned down. READ MORE: Taylor Swift Praises Zoë Kravitz As The ‘Catwoman Of Dreams’ “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,” she recalled. “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,” She added, “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.’ ” Kravitz also talked about her desire to star in movies that aren’t just about her race, explaining that “at one point, all the scripts that were being sent were about the first Black woman to make a muffin or something.

Even though those stories are important to tell, I also want to open things up for myself as an artist.” READ MORE: Zoë Kravitz Talks Robert Pattinson Dressed In George Clooney’s Batman Suit & Drinking Milk Out Of A Bowl She added that her parents Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet “broke down boundaries in a lot of ways” as they “both dealt with being artists who didn’t act or dress or look or sound the way a Black person was supposed to act in terms of what white people specifically were comfortable with.” “I was uncomfortable with my Blackness.