Before finding love with one another, Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum were just friends, working together creatively on her directorial debut, Blink Twice . However, as their romance blossomed, their creative efforts followed suit. In the two years since filming kicked off, the pair have gone public with their romance and subsequently gotten engaged.
On Thursday, they walked the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere for the psychological thriller, and they each spoke with ET's Cassie DiLaura about what it was like working together. "I think there is so much trust there," Kravitz, 35, explained, "and you're able to go to places that maybe you couldn't go with someone that you maybe don't know as well." "So it was a really beautiful experience to work together creatively," she added.
For Tatum, 44, getting the chance to act under the direction of the woman he loves, and getting to collaborate together, was a relationship-cementing experience. "It was really interesting, because we started as friends just working on a project that we both really believe in," Tatum said. "When things start in that creative place.
.. you just respect each other's point of view, you respect each other's mind, each others' experience in life.
" "I now don't know what I would do creating without her," he added. "Everybody was like, 'You sure you want to go create with your partner?' But I actually suggest that to almost everyone now, 'cause you really get to know who that person is and what they are .