Although Zoe Kravitz isn’t as in-tuned with her black side as she could be, she has been faced with the harsh reality of the racism more or less in the world.
The daughter of popular rock singer Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, who are both bi-racial, recently did an interview with Nylon Magazine where she dropped some disturbing information. Zoe says that when she tried to audition for a role in the movie The Dark Knight Rises, she was shut out because she was “too urban.”
Zoe goes on to say, “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.’ 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?’”
She also added, “I don’t want to play everyone’s best friend. 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.’”
Check out Zoe’s full interview with Nylon here.
Source: Nylon
