Zoe Kravitz

Zoë Kravitz is the latest actor to take on the role of Catwoman, starring opposite Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne in “The Batman.”Warner Bros.

Reeves added, “So I don’t think we meant to go directly in that way, but you can interpret it that way for sure. “She’s not yet Catwoman, but all the elements of how she’s going to become Catwoman are there," he said. "And 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.'”

Zoë Kravitz's Selina Kyle calls a woman 'baby' in Matt Reeves' 'The Batman,' in a nod to Catwoman's bisexuality established in the comics years ago.

He added: “So I don’t think we meant to go directly in that way, but you can interpret it that way for sure. The affectionate term got some wondering if it was a nod to her comic-book backstory, even though Anika also is referred to as Selina’s “friend” elsewhere in the film. After flirting around it for years, Selina Kyle was notably established as “canon bisexual” in a 2015 run of DC’s “Catwoman” comics.

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“There were a few emotional beats I considered indispensable … And one was establishing Selina as canon bisexual,” Valentine wrote in a blog post after the issue was published. “So I don’t think we meant to go directly in that way, but you can interpret it that way for sure,” he told Pedestrian in a separate interview with the Aussie website. However, Anika is only referred to as Selina’s “friend” in the movie.