Matt Reeves’s big-screen take on Gotham’s favorite caped crusader is shaping up to be exciting, thanks to some seriously ingenious casting. Robert Pattinson as Batman, Paul Dano as The Riddler, and Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon are all fantastic, but Zoë Kravitz nabbing the role of Catwoman is downright thrilling. Even better, the Big Little Lies star is being welcomed with open paws by the sisterhood by actresses who previously played the part, including Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry, Camren Bicondova, Lee Meriwether, and now Michelle Pfeiffer, who donned the catsuit in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns.
During her appearance on Good Morning America to promote Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, the actress admitted that Catwoman was one of her favorite roles and that she’s excited Kravitz is taking over. When host Michael Strahan asked if she had any advice for her, Pfeiffer’s response was simple but extremely practical.
“Make sure whilst designing the costume they consider how you’re going to go to the bathroom,” she said. A seemingly minor but, one might imagine, very important detail. Honestly, Pfeiffer’s performance looks even more impressive now, as we’re now imagining she had to pee during every fight scene.
The Batman is set to release on June 25, 2021.
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I figured it would be “pee on the couch, that’ll really annoy them.”
FUCK YO COUCH, BATBOY!
“Now where are my out-of-town visitors gonna crash?!?”
Said every cat ever
“They are terrible at hunting, so make sure you when you catch the mice you leave it somewhere they can see it”
An antique rug is also acceptable.
“A cat can wear a funny hat. A cat can dress up like a little queen. If you’re into that sort of thing.”
Hairballs.
Pitch for the DC streaming service: a live-action Catwoman Beyond movie, with Michelle Pfeiffer mentoring a future Catwoman
Goddamn you. Now I am going to obsess. thanks for that…
Michelle Pfeiffer has talked in several recent interviews about how much she loves that role & would like to play it again!
If I recall, there was an attempt to make a spin off film wth her.
They should make a Catwoman & Pussygirl spin-off!
I dunno man, why would there even be a future Catwoman? Even a future Batman was a stretch.
It’s comic books. You should be more amazed that aren’t a million Catwomans.
Serious question, has there ever been a Catman? Cause it’s really fun to say.
Yes.
His theme song is a remix of “Scatman” where they just remove the S.
And Yes:
There was one, but he was modeled after a Persian, so the poofy lilac and cream fur on his costume and the hereditary health issues involving the bladder and liver made him really easy to catch.
yep
https://www.writeups.org/catman-dc-comics-secret-6-blake/He is in Suicide Squad in comics
Batman + Catman Power Hour
Catman Scrothers was great in The Shining.
And in Transformers
The theme song can be a remixed version of Scatman.
Of course there has!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catman_(DC_Comics)
But what would a Catman…do?
The same things cat woman does, but with a penis?
He would also earn significantly more money (for the same amount of work) and climb the corporate ladder (of super-villiany) much faster than any woman could.
What does Catwoman do with a penis?
Well done.
I’ll tell ya what he’d do…!
That is actually my cats name. And my first cat was Selena Kyle. Seemed to fit black shelter cats.
Your cat’s name is Bad Kuchi Kopi?
Catman. You doofus. :p
Yes , obscurish Batman villain (predated catwoman)who still managed to get his own kids imaginext figure. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Imaginext-DC-Super-Friends-Mini-Figures-Catman-Series-6-/264378666252
Well, there’s been a Cartman, a Cart King, a Magna Carta, a Cartesian, a Scatman, a Carlton and a Charlestown, but I don’t think there’s ever been a Catman. Oh, and there has been a Batmanuel!
No, but there’s a theme song.
Peter Criss?
There has been! He’s been used to best effect in Gail Simone’s Secret Six.
Crisis on Infinite Catwomen
Into the Cat-verse. Crisis of Infinite Cats. Catwoman and the Multiverse of Catness.
I also think they should bring Camren Bicondova as young Catwoman from Gotham to one of the CW DC shows (maybe Batwoman)
It’s kinda scary how much she looks like Michelle Pfieffer.
Because some people have an imagination.
Not on this internet they don’t!
You answered yourself; why a future Catwoman? Because there’s a future Batman lol
You want a stretch? The future Plastic Man.
Catwoman is a thief. I hope she isn’t training young people to also be a sexy thief. Training someone to pick up a superhero mantle is a very different thing!
Master thieves mentoring younger thieves has a long cool history in fiction, going back at least as far as Fagin and the Artful Dodger. There’s also the idea of Thieves Guilds, where thievery is an honorable craft with rules and hierarchy.And I don’t know that training a teenager to become a vigilante and take on adult killers and criminals is that much less problematic.
Cat woman is a strumpet thief. I mean she’s a strumpet who is also a thief. Not a thief who steals strumpets.
And not Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman doing the mentoring, either. Just Michelle Pfeiffer leading a community college class or something.
‘Catwoman : into the cattiverse’
Can Coolio do the music?
My girlfriend and I were blue-skying a head-canon for a Catwoman CW show, and she thinks Hannah John-Kamen would be the best actress for the lead. I hadn’t even considered this, but immediately agreed.
Peeing might have been a hassle, but that design for a stitched-together costume looked really cool. That’ll be hard to beat.
Yeah especially since it actually changed throughout the movie, it wasn’t just ‘she made a suit and now it’s her suit’.
It blows my mind how many actors say this exact same thing about every costumed role. I believe Tom Holland said something similar to this as well.You would think over the years this would have been recognized and accounted for.
Yeah it seems to reoccur over and over again. Costume designers need to consider putting in a flap or something
You mean a cat flap?
You mean a piss flap?
They should only hire actual humans as costume designers. Despite all of their probes, aliens just don’t have adequate information about the structure & functioning of the human anatomy. Humans must unite. STOP ALIEN COSTUME DESIGNERS NOW!!!!
Where? I think I heard they had to hide the zippers on this suit under the belt, then up the side.
Sounds complicated
Considering the actors in the old Godzilla movies frequently passed out in their costumes, sometimes while shooting waist-deep in water and barely avoiding drowning, it seems that at least *some* progress has been made.
Yeah, did Vic Morrow die in vain?!
Ben Affleck said Christian Bale warned him about it.
Crotchless catsuit in a Batman movie.
Here’s my money.
Great costume! It definitely imprinted on me at a young age. Rrrrrrrllllll!
Stitched together with a pee flap should be totally do able. You know how much money they spend on these comic con blockbusters these days? Literally…thousands.
Pfeiffer was so so good as Catwoman and the film’s version of Kyle too. And so so hot. Probably warped me seeing it age 11 though, along with Coppola’s Dracula.
In keeping with the theme of “Batman Returns as sexual awakening”, while it was Catwoman/Selina Kyle for you and me, my best friend developed a strong crush on Christopher Walken as Max Shreck. “He throws a woman out a damn window!”“I know, but it was sexy leading up to that point.”
Now to find the person that had their sexual awakening due to Danny Devito’s Penguin.
[raises hand nervously, then waddles to bunk]
Whaaanck whaaanck whaaanck…
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
“At least my nose isn’t gushing blood!”“Please, don’t say gushing! The eroticism is already too much!”
Goooooo for it! Go for it!
My parents didn’t allow me to see the original Batman movie, which came out when I was 5, but they did allow me to see Batman Returns, which is, by every possible metric, less child-appropriate.
“A seemingly minor but, one might imagine, very important detail. ”
Who the fuck thinks that being able to relieve oneself seems like a minor detail?
Costume designers, apparently. Other things they seem to forgetPoopingcooling offeatingbreathingSeriously, I listen to the Blank Check podcast and one of the hosts is Griffin Newman. He played Arthur on the Amazon Tick show. He has told stories about how they had to film in absolutely freezing sound stages because the Tick costume was so hot that if it was at a normal temp, Peter Serafinowicz would pass out. I honestly think this is the reason, that by Endgame most of the MCU cast wore green screen suits and they digital put the costumes on them.
Jeri Ryan also had lots of fun with the Seven of Nine costume. Breathing, bending, drinking – all optional!
http://www.thegeektwins.com/2014/11/5-horrifying-facts-about-seven-of-nines.html
Michelle Pfeiffer’s a goddess, so I’m surprised she even poops or pees.
She farts glitter
What about pooping?
You guys they know people have to pee and that costumes are uncomfortable. The goal is costumes that look good for a few minutes of filming at a time, not costumes that you go to Target in.
The thing is shooting movies requires a lot of waiting and so these actors probably need to wear that costume for hours and hours. Yes, it needs to look great, but these people do need to pee a few times during those hours.
Yes, and they pee, and it takes longer than usual, and then everybody goes on with their day.
From the Wikipedia article for ‘Batman Returns’:“Pfeiffer might wear the suit for 12 to 14 hours at a time, except lunch breaks when it was removed, which was her only opportunity to use the bathroom during the workday.”So a bit more than a few minutes at a time. The article also mentions Pfeiffer needed talcum powder to get into it. I don’t know how much thought the designers put into the comfort of the costumes, but it sounds like they could have managed a little more.
Good luck to the new Catwoman, sure she’ll do it extremely well. However, I and many other folks believe Pfeiffer’s Selina Kyle/Catwoman is the most beautiful woman in film, ever, both in and out the costume. Even if I am not a great fan of comic book movies.
Absolute dream girl status.
I fell in love all over again with Pfeiffer watching that clip. I know there is plastic surgery involved, but she looks like she has barely aged 10 years since 1990. And while I love her as Catwoman, the role that will always be quintessential Michelle Pfeiffer will always be The Fabulous Baker Boys. Fourteen year old Rogue fell in love and she’ll always be my funny valentine.
“Make sure whilst designing the costume they consider how you’re going to go to the bathroom,”
Whilst? Does she think she’s the queen of fucking England all of a sudden? Someone needs to remind her that she was in Grease 2.
she’s so much more than the queen of England.
Queen Elizabeth was in Grease 2?!
…lick Michael Keaton?
[sends text, gets reply]Michael Keaton says yes.
And then he levitated away on his underwear
No, that’s what Michael Keaton is for.
…but that’s lady dogs?!?
I love that this is probably the third time I’ve seen this GIF today, and this is clearly in the best context.
I accidentally posted it under a Mr. T article, so the second time was probably my fault, too… 🙂 (without any context…)
I pity you, fool.
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Pfeiffer relieving herself on set:
Michell Pfeiffer IS Stimpson J. Cat in Batman Returns!
Any actress who plays Catwoman should be required to use a litter box for the sake of authenticity.
Filled only with the world’s finest Gritty Kitty Litter, of course.
That’s why Brando never played Catwoman.
Huh. My memory of Batman Returns is that when it came out it was a let down and people thought it was kind of silly, Catwoman included.
It’s pretty terrible for many reasons I don’t have the time for at the moment, but it’s also not uninteresting. It’s fascinating in its badness, esp. its Burton-specific way of trying to be super serious while everything comes off super silly.
It’s the movie I hold up as People’s Exhibit A of WHY YOU DON’T GIVE BURTON CARTE BLANCHE.
I have a vague memory that a Catwoman reunion was part of one of my favorite Spontaneanation episodes, in which Crocodile Dundee and an honest-to-god Golem cruise the Italian Riviera in a super-yacht.Anyone with me on this? High five? No? OK…
“Also, and I realise that this advice is less useful to you, but if you get a chance to bang Michael Keaton, take it.”
Will do!Oh, Catwoman….right….
Rewatched Batman Returns recently. It’s rough in spots, but definitely worth taking in. Kind of an ode to the chronically displaced, and in that sense extremely Burton, but he also has all these interesting little Old Testament references going on (and you could argue a bit of a problematic Shylock type in DeVito’s Penguin). Pfeiffer is wonderful in it.
Hey Pfeiffer, how’s you like a punch in the P-face?
Zoe kravitz is a bad choice. She’s a bland as the day is long.