Zoë Kravitz has confirmed her version of Catwoman in the upcoming The Batman movie is bisexual.
According to a recent interview with pedestrian.tv the 33-year-old actor said she’d interpreted the character to be part of the LGBTQ+ community due to her relationship with another character in the film.
In the movie Zoë Kravitz is taking on the iconic role of Catwoman, aka Selina Kyle, in The Batman – another remake of the DC comic anti-hero, but this time starring Robert Pattinson who you may know from his role in Twilight.
In one scene, Selina Kyle enters her apartment in search of her female friend Anika.
While Selina searches she calls Anika ‘baby’ which has implied to many, including Zoë, that the character had more than a simple friendship with her friend.
When Zoë was asked if this was an intentional nod towards the character’s sexuality she responded: “That’s definitely the way I interpreted that, that they had some kind of romantic relationship.”
The movie’s director Matt Reeves added his opinion to the sexuality of Catwoman and supported Zoë’s interpretation.
“In terms of her relationship with Anika, I spoke to Zoë very early on and one of the things she said which I loved was that: ‘She’s drawn to strays because she was a stray and so she really wants to care for these strays because she doesn’t want to be that way anymore and Anika is like a stray and she loves her,'” he said.
“‘She actually represents this connection that she has to her mother who she lost, who was a stray anymore’.”
Matt added it wasn’t the direction they ‘meant’ to go in, but they definitely wanted to portray the character to have an ‘intimate relationship’ with her friend.
“So I don’t think we meant to go directly in that way, but you can interpret it that way for sure,” he continued, “She has an intimacy with that character and it’s a tremendous and deep caring for that character, more so than a sexual thing, but there was meant to be quite an intimate relationship between them.”
The Batman hits cinemas in the UK on March 4.