People have been arguing about who was the best Catwoman. Most of them have been wildly wrong. See, Batman’s love interest cum nemesis is supposed to ooze sex. Catwoman isn’t just a pretty face – she’s a huge prick tease as well.
Looking at those who have played the famous feline villain, it is a surprisingly sexless bunch.
And Anne Hathaway, who will play Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film, is the latest to completely lack in sophisticated skankery.
Think about it. Catwoman is pure sex. She’s a whip-cracking, S&M suited siren, ready to give you a raging hard-on before disappearing into the night to act out some dastardly deed while you’re still wobbling around trying to hide your erection with a Bat-Cushion.
Yet, for some time now, no-one has successfully cast a Catwoman who has the innate primal sexiness that the character requires.
Way back when, on the ’60s Batman TV show, the producers were bang on the money. Julie Newmar (the best Catwoman ever), Lee Meriwether and Eartha Kitt all looked like they were dirty and kinky. Perfect Catwoman material. You could totally buy into the notion that Batman wouldn’t be able to control himself around them.
Then, years later, we got a spate of women who were just… meh.
Michelle Pfeiffer brought her back in ’92, and like all modern Catwomen, was attractive enough but, really, not exactly oozing the filth that the original actors had. Pfeiffer is about as sexual magnetic as a shop window dummy. Then, we went even further away from primal urges with Halle Berry. Again, an attractive woman, but lacking in the trashy sleaze that Catwoman is supposed to have. In fact, Halle Berry looks like something of a goodie-two-shoes and therefore, wildly wrong for the role.
And now we get the similarly sexless Anne Hathaway to come and (probably fail) in the vamp stakes. There’s a whole host of actresses out there who have that classy-hussy thing going on and, alas, Anne Hathaway isn’t one of them.
Starring alongside her will be the impossibly boned Tom Hardy who will play Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and, of course, the gravel voiced Christian Bale returns as Bruce Wayne. We’ll get to see it all unfurl on 20th July 2012.
We can only hope to be proven wrong and Hathaway shows us a side to her character that we haven’t seen before. She should start by watching this clip…
…okay. That was purely for our benefit.
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Superclone says
I think that Hathaway has the acting chops, just not many people give her credit because they haven’t seen her outside of Disneyfied crap. Havoc is a train wreck of a movie, but Hathaway was remarkable in it. A much better example of the kind of dark appeal she can bring to the screen is Rachel Getting Married. Fantastic role, fantastic acting.
She’s not my first choice – I really wanted to see Rachel Weisz as a slightly older socialite who is established in Gotham – but I’m willing to cut Nolan some slack and give him a chance to make her shine.
Tom J says
You must realise that this news is a deliberate diversion to obscure the real identity of the actress portraying Catwoman? Keep this to yourself but I have it on very good authority that Cher will be the actual Catwoman. It’s all very hush-hush, but Nolan went to a lot of effort to gauge viewer opinion and apparently the fanboys want Cher. It’s a done deal, but he’s not going to release the real cast-list just yet. Watch this space.
Cookie Monster says
I was holding-out for Kate Beckinsale. Am I right? Eh? Course I am. Maybe she’s not filthy enough, on second thought. That, and she’s now 37, whilst Pfeiffer was 34 (if my math is correct) when she did Batman, or at least when she did the movie. Perhaps it was because I was young-ish back then, but she seemed a bit long in the tooth.
Who else? C’mon Heckler, name some names. I’m drawing a blank… Tom J’s suggestion of Cher has clouded my mind. Ugh.
Well, whatever. Now we can look forward to the the Anne(t)Christ or Bathaway rumours. It’ll be fun. A leaked sex tape will feature Bale freaking-out on Hathaway for distracting him during his scene.