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Ladies Who Pack a Punch: Our Favorite Butt-Kicking Women

From Anne Hathaway's Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises to Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, these fierce femmes bring the pain (27 Photos)

Tom DiChiara on Mar 26, 2013 at 5:31PM

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Ladies Who Pack a Punch: Our Favorite Butt-Kicking Women

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Anne Hathaway in 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Is Anne Hathaway's sexy, pot-stirring cat burglar Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman, Batman's (Christian Bale) friend or foe in The Dark Knight Rises? It's complicated, but we will tell you one thing that's certain: The actress is purrfectly capable of kicking butt in a skintight leather suit and steel high heels. As one might imagine, Hathaway says that the part -- which required her to do many of her own stunts and to train extensively in martial arts -- was the most physically demanding of her career. "I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate," she told Collider of her training regimen. "I've had to ratchet everything up."