# So who should play Catwoman? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293 "2008-07-21T19:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/81 "2008-07-22T22:09:12Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] Amazing. It’s nice that the Wikipedia category [“Fictional eggs”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_eggs) has more than one entry. [/QUOTE] Hmmm…they didn’t have an entry on Tom Swift Jr’s Atomic Eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/82 "2008-07-22T22:14:47Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I was going to post that someone said her on page one but IT WAS YOU!!! [/quote] I thought no one heard me!!! 😃 > [@](#): > > If you’re going for hourglass body only, Salma Hayek. And Katherine Heigl; she could play glamor but I think she would crash and burn acting against Christian Bale. Those are “hollywood” hourglasses…not quite the same thing. It’s like how people always talk about Jennifer Lopez’s big butt. That’s not really a big butt, it’s just a “hollywood” big butt. Kim Kardashian has a REAL hourglass figure. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/83 "2008-07-23T00:16:41Z")
Carman Electra…You did say skin tight. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/84 "2008-07-23T05:57:22Z")
[QUOTE=akira5822] You are just not right !!! 😛 [/QUOTE] Come on, can’t you picture it? 😃 **jayjay** , good point about the Morlocks. I think the Hellfire Club has been a really good foil, though (we got Dark Jean Grey and Emma Frost out of it). As for Catwoman, Charlize Theron might be interesting. Or Caterina Murino. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/85 "2008-07-23T12:39:48Z")
[QUOTE=akira5822] You are just not right !!! 😛 [/QUOTE] Not right? I think the idea is… wait for it… you can see it coming a mile down the road… … Sensational. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/86 "2008-07-23T18:40:24Z")
[QUOTE=Saint Cad] I have to go with Cherize Theron. She has played slinky in Aeon Flux but I was thinking more of what she did in (her Academy Award winning performance in) Monster. She has the chops to play a heartless villian. [/QUOTE] Well Catwoman isn’t a heartless villain, she’s a cat. Cat’s have big hearts, they just appear fickle at times. They are intensely loyal and loving to who they owe allegiance, but have no allegiance to anyone outside of that. There is a feline sexuality that Michelle Pfeiffer could pull off that I am not certain Charlize Theron could. I’d love to see Rachel Weisz do it but I haven’t ever seen her in a really dark role. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/87 "2008-07-23T18:48:28Z")
As for X-Men villains one of my favorite groups which was a spin-off of the Hellfire Club was ‘The Reavers’. One of my favorite storylines from the 90s was when the Reavers were chasing the remnants of the X-Men around the Australian Outback. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/88 "2008-07-23T19:22:10Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10020178&postcount=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10020178&postcount=2) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/89 "2008-07-23T20:33:43Z")
One person my brother and I thought of is Annabella Sciorra. She’s got a nice low purring voice and can definitely be evil and insane. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/90 "2008-07-23T21:22:34Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Come on, can’t you picture it? 😃 Ok, Seeing sara in ripped pants and topless might just work for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/91 "2008-07-23T21:27:25Z")
I still have to insist that casting for sex appeal above all other considerations is not the “Nolan way.” I think he’ll cast someone who’s more likely to be able to pull off psycho, or frightening, or whatever. Just casting the latest hottie who can model a catsuit would be very disappointing and wouldn’t fit well alongside his first two Batman movies. It should be Helen Mirren or Kathy Bates or maybe Meryl Streep, playing a bitter nasty old woman who smells like cat pee and hates the world. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/92 "2008-07-23T21:40:48Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Meryl Streep, playing a bitter nasty old woman who smells like cat pee and hates the world. [/QUOTE] I thought she only played bitter nasty old women who wear mink coats and hate the world? I don’t know if she could stretch to “cat pee”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/93 "2008-07-23T21:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] I still have to insist that casting for sex appeal above all other considerations is not the “Nolan way.” I think he’ll cast someone who’s more likely to be able to pull off psycho, or frightening, or whatever. Just casting the latest hottie who can model a catsuit would be very disappointing and wouldn’t fit well alongside his first two Batman movies. It should be Helen Mirren or Kathy Bates or maybe Meryl Streep, playing a bitter nasty old woman who smells like cat pee and hates the world. [/QUOTE] Parker Posey can play ruthless crazy and still has a cuteness about her. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/94 "2008-07-23T22:03:29Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] I’m making a wild guess that the next Batman film will feature a new Catwoman as the main villain. I would have said Maggie Gyllenhaal, if not for the fact that she’s already in the current film. Who’d you like to see vamping around in skintight leather, whipping a bullwhip around? Just please, please, PLEASE God don’t let it be Halle Berry. [/QUOTE] What’s wrong with Halle Berry. Seems like she was built for bullwhipping skintight leather… Homer Simpson “Halle Berry aggghhhh” The obvious choice would be [Jocelyn Wildenstein](http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/000351.html). If they want a scary villian they can save all kinds of money on makeup. I think any of the Star-Trek ladies who wore paint-on uniforms would work. [Annika Hansen](http://users.aol.com/alscherer/7of9.jpg) doesn’t even need a new wardrobe, just a tail (a longer one before anyone thinks of replying). ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/95 "2008-07-28T23:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] It should be Helen Mirren or Kathy Bates or maybe Meryl Streep, playing a bitter nasty old woman who smells like cat pee and hates the world. [/QUOTE] While I see your point, and agree with the sentiment (Kim Kardashian? Jessica Alba? Didn’t Katie Holmes teach us that pretty…pretty vacant doesn’t work in these movies, people?) … I don’t think any of them get at the essential nature of Catwoman. And that’s one thing Nolan’s movies do very well: translate the essence of these characters into a real world. We need someone who can play a smart variation on Ashley Dupre, someone you believe could work as a prostitute. That’s not just sexy, that’s also smart. But damaged. (This is one reason I think Jolie, though cliched, fits the concept of the role: sexy and broken on the inside is her specialty.) I like the Rosario Dawson suggestion, and Isla Fisher, and Rachel Weisz, and Gretchen Mol. Another possibility: Cate Blanchett. Or if she’s learned to act, Julia Stiles. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/96 "2008-07-29T00:07:34Z")
I hear Valerie Bertinelli & Marie Osmond are working on slimming down for auditions. ::eek:: ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/97 "2008-07-29T00:24:03Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] I suggest Mary Louise Parker, or Hillary Swank. [/QUOTE] Hillary would be great if there was a Bat-villain called Horseface. > [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > Summer Glau Maybe if Catwoman had autism. I have her pretty much typecast as playing slightly “off” sci-fi chicks. I was going to suggest [Carla Gugino](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001303/) but I see she is already in Watchmen. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/98 "2008-07-29T00:32:06Z")
Sienna Miller, shes even got the [costume](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3203831552/ch0049915) already. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/99 "2008-07-29T00:51:48Z")
A (live action) G.I. Joe movie! I never thought I’d live to see the day! It’ll probably suck, they all seem to be wearing the now clichéd black, padded leather “armor” (and who the hell is Ripcord? never got him for Christmas). To the OP: Eva Green, as stated before. She’s even got that mysterious cat eyes thing going on. I don’t know about her acting chops, I’ve only seen her in Casino Royale and Kingdom of Heaven, she seemed to do ok. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293/100 "2008-07-29T01:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] I still have to insist that casting for sex appeal above all other considerations is not the “Nolan way.” [/QUOTE] What is the essence of the character in the continuity Nolan is drawing on for his movies? Is she a rich socialite who steals for kicks, a frustrated dominatrix looking for the ultimate challenge, a psychotic ex-volunteer at the Humane Society? Tell me that, and then we can start to figure out who can play the role. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-should-play-catwoman/457293.md?page=6)