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I did not know Selinas height was this important until now.
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She is 5'7 in the comics
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Catwoman_(Selina_Kyle)
I think the idea is that Catwoman is supposed to be built like a supermodel, whose average height is 5'8". A woman 5'2" is considered a petite model. For instance Gal Gadot, who was a model, is 5'10"
Lynda Carter, another former model, is 5'11". Ruby Rose, who was also a model, is 5'7". Even Melissa Benoist, who is Super-GIRL, is 5'8". When people think Catwoman they don't think petite.
People kind of expect superhero type, action hero type characters to be big people. I don't really have a problem with Zoe Krazitz. Haven't seen her in action yet. But it just seemed sort of funny
that someone so tiny would be playing Catwoman. I almost suspect some people are going to label her Cat-girl or Cat-midget.
Selina has never been depicted as being particularly tall or if she is it's kind of hard to tell given how often she's seen crouching.
Kind of depends on the artist. If Batman is supposed to be 6'2" then Catwoman would be about 5"8" to 5'10" here, depending on how high the heels on her boots are.
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Exact heights in the DCU always seem to fluctuate depending on the artist or the continuity, but Catwoman's always struck me as being on the tall side compared to other women.
Is she the tallest Siren? Harley might be taller.
Height on screen is pretty easy to manipulate. She will look only a couple inches shorter than Pattinson. For years, short dudes have gotten movie magic to look taller than their female counterparts. Tom Cruise could write a whole book on how easy it is lol
My question is why it still needs to be Selina Kyle? We’ve already had seen her on the big screen for 2 times (3 if you think the 60s Batman movie’s version was Kyle). Couldn’t they have used Holly or Eiko?
They had Tom Hardy, who's only like 5'9" play Bane and people bought it. Sylvester Stallone and Tom Cruise have been doing action films for decades and neither of them are all that talk either.
Height is one of the easier things to manipulate in films as stated above.
In Halle Berry's defense, she wasn't portraying Selina Kyle, but Patience Phillips, just another Catwoman in a long line of Catwomen throughout history. And I like how the movie didn't have her trying to be Selina, but had her being her own new character who literally had the abilities of a cat. The script and dialogue in certain scenes were awful, though.
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