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 .
“I knew it was going to be hard, but not that hard,” said Kravitz about her first time in the.