Zoe Kravitz recently took to Instagram in a story, clarifying a claim that she was rejected from auditioning for The Dark Knight Rises due to her skin color.

"Being a woman of color and being an actor," she said during an interview with The Observer, "and being told at that time that I wasn’t able to read because of the color of my skin, and the word 'urban' being thrown around like that, that was what was really hard about that moment.”

Some took it further and claimed that Zöe was auditioning for the Catwoman role, which was then played by Anne Hathaway. Zoe complained through her post by starting off, “Ok - let’s talk about click bait bad journalism.”

“I was NOT told I was too urban to play Catwoman in The Dark Knight. It would have made NO sense for me to even be considered for that role at that time."

“I wanted to AUDITION for a small part in the film and was told (I do not know who said this but this is how it was worded to me) that they were not going ‘urban’ on the part. This is something I heard a lot 10 years ago — it was a very different time."

“I did not mention this to point any fingers or make anyone seem racist, namely Chris Nolan, the film’s producers or anyone on the casting team, because I truly do not believe anyone meant any harm.

"I was simply giving an example of what it was like to be a woman of color in this industry at that time."

Zöe cleared that the incident happened "many years ago when words like that were thrown around very casually," and appealed to the public to "let’s all calm down — as well as fact check before we write things that are untrue.”

The challenges of journalism today mostly center around the widespread use of fake news and misinformation to create click baits. Perhaps, it is only right that when these arise, it is the crucial time for our voice to be heard to clear misunderstandings.

Photo By: Buzzfeed