Zoë Kravitz confirms that Catwoman fires a gun in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Kravitz becomes just the latest actor to take on the ever-challenging role of Batman's cat-loving frenemy on the big screen.

Of course the first and arguably best cinematic Catwoman was the one rendered by Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. Unfortunately when the time came for Catwoman to get her own movie, things did not go as well for Halle Berry, whose 2004 standalone is widely considered to be one of the worst comic book movies of all time. Catwoman then returned to the Batman universe as Anne Hathaway took her turn as the character in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy-capping The Dark Knight Rises.

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When Catwoman returns opposite Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader in The Batman she’ll be played this time by Kravtiz, and trailers have already indicated that this will be a different take on the character than has been seen before. Indeed, one recent clip even showed Catwoman doing something fans never thought they’d see her do: brandish a firearm. As it turns out, fans’ eyes did not deceive them, as Kravitz spoke in a recent interview with Buzzfeed about doing gun training for The Batman:

There was also some gun training — I had to be able to shoot the gun accurately, load it, and reshoot it, WITH these crazy-long nails...so learning how to shoot a gun without breaking a nail was a new skill I developed.

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The issue of guns in Batman movies is always a sensitive one of course as comic book lore holds that the Caped Crusader has a "no kill" policy and therefore doesn't go around using firearms to take down bad guys. Indeed when directors have violated this particular aspect of Batman myth in the past, as Zack Snyder did in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, there has been push-back from fans who argue that Batman loses some of his unique character when he just goes around shooting people like any other action movie hero. Other characters in Batman are allowed to use guns naturally, but by-and-large firearms have not been a huge factor in the movies even for the villains. As for Catwoman herself, she has famously been depicted using a whip as her weapon of choice, most memorably in Batman Returns. But obviously there’s no hard-and-fast rule that states Catwoman can’t have a gun.

Surely writer-director Reeves has his reasons for somewhat bending the unwritten rules of Batman lore and giving Catwoman a gun in his new take on the world of the Caped Crusader. Indeed it’s already been well-demonstrated that Reeves’ take is a very dark and gritty one, but now it seems it’s also set to be more traditionally violent than other Batman movies as well. Whether such violence works in Batman is of course down to the taste of the viewer, and there are no doubt purists who will bemoan Reeves surrendering to the ways of modern movies and sticking a gun in Catwoman’s hands, rather than give her a more interesting weapon like a bullwhip. Then again, everything depends on the story, and if Catwoman having a gun makes sense within what The Batman is trying to do then it’s surely something audiences can handle.

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Source: Buzzfeed

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