The Batman star Zo Kravitz suggested that racism was behind her being rejected for a role in a previous Batman movie.

Kravitz, who plays Catwoman in the current box-office hit headlined by Robert Pattinson as Batman, told The Guardian this week that she tried to get an audition for director Chris Nolans 2012 The Dark Knight Rises.

But she said she was told she was too urban."

I dont know if it came directly from Chris Nolan, she said. I think it was probably a casting director of some kind, or a casting directors assistant. ... Being a woman of color and being an actor and being told at that time that I wasnt able to read because of the color of my skin, and the word urban being thrown around like that, that was what was really hard about that moment.