Zoë Kravitz “interpreted” her character in Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” as bisexual, finally bringing a long-present detail about Catwoman to the big screen.
After flirting around it for years, Selina Kyle was notably established as “canon bisexual” in a 2015 run of DC’s “Catwoman” comics. Writer Genevieve Valentine and artist Garry Brown did it with a kiss between the character and another woman taking up the Catwoman mantle, explaining at the time that her bisexuality “wasn’t a revelation so much as a confirmation.”
But Selina’s sexuality has not been an explicit part of her character profile when adapted for “Batman” TV shows and films, in which she has been famously played by Eartha Kitt, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry and Anne Hathaway over the years. Those projects portrayed the Gotham City burglar as a heterosexual woman whose tete-a-tetes with Bruce Wayne’s Batman stoke sexual tension in the story.
