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Zoe Kravitz Shut Out Of ‘Dark Knight’ Casting Due To Race Even though she used to identify as a white girl , Zoe Kravitz has quickly had to learn Hollywood’s racist ropes . In her most recent magazine interview, the starlet reveals that she was even shut out of auditioning for The Dark Knight movie franchise — specifically because they weren’t in the market for “urban” actors. Via USWeekly : Where’s Batman when you need him to save the day? Zoe Kravitz said in a new interview with Nylon magazine that she was unjustly shut out of an audition for The Dark Knight Rises because of her ethnicity. “In the last Batman movie, they told me that I couldn’t get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren’t ‘going urban,’” Kravitz, 26, said in the August issue’s cover story. “It was like, ‘What does that have to do with anything?’ I have to play the role like, ‘Yo, what’s up, Batman? What’s going on wit chu?’” The daughter of rocker Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet — both of whom are biracial — the star has been careful about the roles she chooses as she grows her film career. Kravitz’s credits now include parts in the critically acclaimed Dope, Divergent, and Mad Max: Fury Road, and she is weary about getting typecast anytime soon. “I don’t want to play everyone’s best friend,” she told Nylon. “I don’t want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It’s not that that story isn’t important, but I saw patterns and was like, ‘I don’t relate to these people.’” Looks like she’s well on her way to breaking out of those molds, right?

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Zoe Kravitz Says She Was Shut Out Of Auditions For ‘The Dark Knight’ For Being “Too Urban”