The Batman
Eiza González has confirm she auditioned to encounter Catwoman inThe Batman . TheBaby Driverstar has beenlinked to the part of Selina Kyleas far back as June 2017 , when she mail anInstagramstory show herself in a black catsuit and heel with the caption"The uniform lately " . A few months later , Suicide SquaddirectorDavid Ayer get follow her on Twitter , leading fans to chew over she was in the running to play Catwoman in hisGotham City SirensDCEU spinoff ( which was still moving forrad at the time ) . Famous buff artist BossLogic even did up some art imaginingwhat González could look like in the role .
In the two yr since then , however , Gotham City Sirenshas been put on indefinite hold and Matt Reeves hascast Zoë Kravitz to encounter Catwomanin his coming DCEU photographic film , The Batman . Although Kravitz has since bring out she was , ironically , rejected from audition to play Selina KyleinThe Dark Knight rise , there has n’t been a lot of talking about what other actresses tried out for the role in referee ' motion picture . Now , González has confirmed she was one of them .
link : Eiza González Interview : Bloodshot
In an interview withTHRto promote theBloodshotmovie ( which she costars in ) , González revealed she not only auditioned to play Catwoman inThe Batman , she even did a camera examination for the role . She go on to admit she was - intelligibly - disappoint when she did n’t snag the part :
“ It ’s impossible not to do that , specially when you get so far down the ancestry . It ’s part of why you ’re so far down the line , because you ’re live on and dreaming the character . It is heartrending ; it is always hard . You have to foresee yourself in the role so as to see the role . You ca n’t have one groundwork in and one foot out . When I started my life history , I was more like that , and I would n’t get that far . So now I do , and I just go through the heartbreak afterwards . "
Despite lose out on the character of Catwoman , González is doing pretty well professionally . In addition to her part inBloodshot , she briefly appeared in bothAlita : Battle AngelandFast & Furious Presents : Hobbs & Shawlast yr , and toldTHRshe gotBloodshotlead Vin Diesel ’s blessing to shape on theFast & Furiousspinoff , even though he was in public feuding with whiz Dwayne Johnson at the time . Later this yr , González will also work one of the humans in the MonsterVerse sequelGodzilla vs. Kongand has already shot her scenes for a couple of movies that may or may extend to theaters this year , depending on how the coronavirus impact the going schedule for the rest of 2020 . So , as grievous as it no doubt was to omit out on playinga case as iconic as Catwoman , things are still look good for González .
Of course if González had been cast as Catwoman inThe Batman , she would n’t even be filming right now . Reeves ' DCEU film , like every other major Hollywood moving-picture show that ’s been shooting latterly , has put its production on - hold because of the coronavirus pandemic . Shooting onThe Batmanhas been delayedfor at least two week , but it may go on break for much longer if the situation wit the virus continue to worsen over the month before . Because of the irruption , box office returns dropped to a twenty - year lowin the U.S. this past weekend , which led to a weaker than projected opening forBloodshot . For that intellect , theodds ofBloodshot 2happening seem slimand González may be looking to get together a different superhero dimension in the future .
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informant : THR
