The 'Batman' actress says she was turned down for a chance to audition for Christopher Nolan's Caped Crusader epic.
— and was shot down because she was too “urban.”. “I think it was probably a casting director of some kind, or a casting director’s assistant.
… Being a woman of color and being an actor and being told at that time that I wasn’t able to read because of the color of my skin, and the word ‘urban’ being thrown around like that, that was what was really hard about that moment.”
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