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"Christopher Nolan has admitted that he initially felt &amp;quot;nervous&amp;quot; about including Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. Speaking to Empire, the Batman director revealed that his brother - writer Jonathan Nolan - persuaded him to feature the famous Gotham City villain.   &amp;quot;Catwoman is a very iconic figure in the Batman pantheon,&amp;quot; he conceded. &amp;quot;I was nervous about how she would fit into our world. But [Jonathan] was very much convinced that there would be a great way to do it and eventually turned me around.  &amp;quot;Once I got my head around the idea of looking at that character through the prism of our films, saying, &amp;#039;Who could that person be in real life?&amp;#039; we figured it out. She&amp;#039;s a bit of a con-woman, something of a grifter. A hard-edged kind of criminal.&amp;quot; Jonathan added: &amp;quot;What we&amp;#039;re endeavouring to do here is tell a complete take on the Batman mythos. And a complete take of the Batman mythos without the character for me was sacrilegious. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve got to have her, because she has a delicious greyness to her that helps define who Batman is. She keeps wavering on this line of, &amp;#039;Is she a good guy or a bad guy?&amp;#039; Well, she&amp;#039;s kind of neither. And that&amp;#039;s why, to me, that relationship and that character only enhances the universe - and the Batman character.&amp;quot; The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway will portray Catwoman in the upcoming sequel. The Dark Knight Rises is released on July 20. Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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