Anne Hathaway: Sexy enough to play Catwoman?

The "Love and Other Drugs" star has been cast as villain Selina Kyle in the next "Dark Knight" sequel. Does she have the erotic edge the role requires?

Is Anne Hathaway a match for the other fierce females who've played Catwoman, such as Eartha Kitt (the 1960s TV show) and Michelle Pfeiffer (1992's "Batman Returns")?
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Director Christopher Nolan has announced that Anne Hathaway, the toothsome star of The Devil Wears Prada and Rachel Getting Married will play Selina Kyle — a.k.a Catwoman — in The Dark Knight Rises, the latest instalment in the Batman series. The actress will follow in the adroit, flirty footsteps of former Catwomen Halle Berry, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Eartha Kitt, but some commentators aren't convinced that she's sufficiently "predatory" to fill the iconic catsuit:

Hathaway is no femme fatale: Am I the only one who has trouble thinking of this "wide-eyed, sweet-faced girl" as a "fetishy feline fatale"? asks Linda Sharps at The Stir. Frankly, "I can think of about 50 actresses" better suited to the role than Hathaway. Who knows, "perhaps she'll surprise us all." But I doubt it.

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