Zoe Kravitz: ‘Batman’ Producers Considered Me Too ‘Urban’

With her high-profile turns in the blockbuster "Mad Max: Fury Road" and the Sundance darling "Dope," this has been a breakout year for Zoe Kravitz.

But she says Hollywood still can’t always see past her race.

"In the last 'Batman’ movie ['The Dark Knight Rises'], they told me that I couldn’t get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren’t ‘going urban,'" Kravitz, 26, tells Nylon magazine. "It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?' I have to play the role like, 'Yo, what’s up, Batman? What’s going on wit chu?'"

That was not the case, however, when she landed a role in the 2007 film “The Brave One” opposite Jodie Foster.

"That part was written for a white Russian girl," says Kravitz, the daughter of singer Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. "I auditioned, and they changed the role for me."

And while she strives to pass on parts focusing on her race – "I don’t want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto," she says – she made an exception with "Dope," the offbeat comedy about nerdy teens growing up amid drug dealers and violence in Inglewood, Calif.

"It hit all the points that I believe in," she says. "I know those people," she says. "I got the sense of humor."