Zoë Kravitz was denied an audition for 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Since the release of

, critics have been pretty unanimous in praising Zoë Kravitz's performance as Catwoman.

A nice revenge for the 33-year-old actress who had tried in vain to pass the casting of

, the first opus of Christopher Nolan's trilogy released in 2012. Indeed, she had been criticized for her "too urban" look. ".

"I don't know if it was from Chris Nolan.

I think it was probably a casting director or someone like that or his assistant… Being a woman of color and being an actress, and being told at that point that I couldn't make it through the casting because of my skin color throwing the word 'urban' in that way, that's what was really difficult,” she told the

.

A frankly irritating comment, especially since the actress has always made it a point of honor to take only roles that were not directly related to the skin color of the character.

An artist before being a black woman

"At one point, all the scenarios that were sent to me were about the first black woman to have made a muffin or stuff like that," continued Zoë Kravitz.

“While telling these stories is important, I also want to grow as an artist.

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Words that did not fail to cause controversy on the networks, pushing the star to react to calm things down.

"Again, this was many years ago, when words like this were casually thrown around, and while I'm very glad we're trying to move on, let's all calm down, and get the facts straight. before writing things that are false, ”she wrote in an Instagram Story, defending herself for having sought to portray Christopher Nolan as someone racist.

Anyway,

is a real hit at the box office by signing the best start since the start of the pandemic with $ 128.5 million in revenue during its first weekend of exploitation in the United States. United.

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