20 Things You Didn't Know About The Dark Knight Rises
14. Anne Hathaway Thought She Was Auditioning For Harley Quinn
Anne Hathaway was roundly praised for her performance as Selina Kyle aka Catwoman, but the casting process for the part was so top-secret that she wasn't even told upfront which character she was auditioning for.
In a recent interview, the actress revealed that she actually thought she was trying out for the part of Harley Quinn, and hilariously tailed her audition to that end. She said:
"I came in and I had this lovely Vivienne Westwood kind of beautiful-but-mad tailoring top with stripes going everywhere. And I wore these flat Joker-ey looking shoes. And I was trying to give Chris these crazy little smiles...About an hour into the meeting he said 'Well, I’m sure I don't have to tell you this, but it's Catwoman'. And I was shifting into a different gear. 'Now ok, we're slinky. We're slinky. And I hate my shirt. I love my shirt, but not right now. We’re slinky.'"
As much as one can imagine Hathaway knocking Harley Quinn out of the park, the character's cartoonish nature doesn't exactly seem like the snuggest fit for the more grounded tone of Nolan's films, no?