As Zoë Kravitz makes her feature directorial debut, she’s receiving rave reviews from her cast, including boyfriend Channing Tatum.
The Blink Twice star praised Kravitz for co-writing and helming the psychological thriller, reasoning that directing was “always what she was supposed to do,” after working together on the film in Yucatán, Mexico back in 2022.
“It was okay, it was alright,” he joked to Consequence about working with Kravitz. “She’s obsessed with stories in movies — specifically movies. Like, we don’t do very much other than just watch movies. To get to be around someone that is so in love with it, that it consumes their whole life… It is who they are. This isn’t just like, ‘Oh, I want to see if I can direct a movie.’ This has always been the plan.
“I don’t even know if it was a plan. I think it was just something that she had to admit — that this is always what she was supposed to do. Because she loves it that much,” added Tatum.
Co-written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, Blink Twice stars Naomi Ackie as cocktail waitress Frida, who becomes infatuated with tech billionaire Slater King (Tatum) and joins him on a trip to his private island, where strange things begin to happen. Premiering Friday, the movie also stars Alia Shawkat, Haley Joel Osment, Simon Rex, Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Christian Slater and Adria Arjona.
Channing Tatum in Blink Twice.
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“I knew it was going to be hard, but not that hard,” said Kravitz about her first time in the director’s chair. “It’s so, so hard and I felt the need to stay creative in a crisis, because it’s almost all solutions — because everything is constantly going wrong. And sometimes when things aren’t going the way they’re supposed to, you can get upset and then you shut down and then you’re just not open-hearted and you’re not creative.”
Kravitz added, “I did find that when things did go wrong, if you stay creative and engaged, it’s almost always leading you towards what actually was always meant to be.”
Tatum, who began dating Kravitz in 2021, said that their mutual friend Riley Keough previously connected them “kind of out of nowhere” so she could send him the script