LOS ANGELES (AFP) – The new Catwoman has been unmasked.
American actress Zoe Kravitz, 30, will play the character in a new Batman film starring Robert Pattinson, a Warner source said on Monday (Oct 14).
Kravitz, who recently starred in HBO's hit television drama Big Little Lies and is the daughter of rock musician Lenny Kravitz, will portray the whip-wielding cat burglar who is both Batman's foe and love interest in the comics.
She follows A-listers such as Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Pfeiffer in portraying Catwoman – alter ego Selina Kyle – in The Batman, which is due for release in 2021.
Kravitz voiced Catwoman in 2017's The Lego Batman Movie and also appeared in Warner's Fantastic Beasts films, set in the Harry Potter universe.
The casting news follows the massive success of Joker, which provides an origin story for another notorious Batman adversary, and has broken October's box-office records in North America.
The Batman will be directed by Matt Reeves, who was behind the last two Planet Of The Apes sequels.
