Halle Berry is thankful but also somewhat baffled to find that her near-universally panned Catwoman is developing a cult following almost two decades after the movie was released in 2004.
Responding to a fan on Twitter who appreciates the film for its “camp” sensibilities and believes “Berry ate her Catwoman role up,” the actor acknowledged she is “seeing all the Catwoman love” but pondering why they didn’t speak up when the superhero installment released to a critical bashing in the 2000s.
Catwoman was a reimagining of the source material, replacing morally questionable thief Selina Kyle with the more traditionally heroic Patience Phillips, who gained the powers of a cat from an Egyptian goddess.
Berry was no stranger to comic book movies at the time, having starred as Ororo “Storm” Munroe in X-Men (2000) and X-2: X-Men United (2003). Following the failure of Catwoman, she reprised her role as the Marvel mutant in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), while a rebooted version of Catwoman, portrayed by Anne Hathaway, appeared in The Dark Knight Rises. In spite of the negative reception her turn as the character attracted, Berry maintains, “Catwoman is still my favorite superhero.”
Zoë Kravitz is the next actor to adopt the mantle in a live-action film, acting opposite Robert Pattinson in The Batman. Kravitz previously voiced the cat burglar in The Lego Batman Movie. Bringing Catwoman to life posed a brand new set of “physically demanding” challenges for her, including the training she underwent for the part but also the stresses brought about by making a Hollywood blockbuster during a global pandemic. The latter aspect was eased by the indie atmosphere director Matt Reeves brought to the set.
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