Overview
- This week Hathaway told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that she spent a week preparing to channel Harley Quinn before meeting Christopher Nolan.
- She said she cultivated “demonic Harley Quinn energy,” wore jester flats and a striped top, and then “changed personalities like a psychopath” when the meeting revealed the part was Catwoman.
- About two hours into the meeting Nolan disclosed the role was Selina Kyle, Hathaway says, and her rapid pivot helped her win the part in The Dark Knight Rises.
- The Dark Knight Rises casting began a recurring creative partnership between Hathaway and Nolan that led to Interstellar and the new film The Odyssey, which opens July 17.
- The story has renewed discussion of DC casting because Nolan’s trilogy never included Harley Quinn and later portrayals by Margot Robbie, Lady Gaga and Zoe Kravitz have appeared in separate DC continuities.