at the premiere of her directorial debut blink twice Zoë Kravitz went out of her way to thank the movie star and her fiancé Channing Tatum on Thursday.
Ahead of the screening at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Kravitz thanked the cast and crew who worked on the project, while telling the audience that she “just had to take a second to talk about Channing fucking Tatum.” , then read a note she wrote in her notebook.
“From producing, to performing, to pep talks, to holding my head or feet while I cry on the bathroom floor because I feel like I screwed it all up, thank you for making me a total ODC Control freak. Thank you for your patience,” she said. “It was such a great adventure making this movie with you. Thank you for believing in me. Making movies is really cool, but it’s even cooler when you make a movie with the love of your life. This is so exciting for me last year The engaged couple also made their red carpet debut at the event.
Kravitz directed and co-wrote the psychological thriller, which stars Tatum as tech billionaire Slater King, who meets cocktail waitress Frieda (Naomie Ackie) at a fundraising gala. . He invites her to vacation with him and his friends on his private island, but things start to go wrong there.
Kravitz, who admitted that public speaking was her biggest fear, also thanked the film team during her opening night speech for “taking the time to make this movie what we dreamed it would be.” You all work harder than you are paid for. All of you have lost sleep over this project, and probably lost your mind. All of you have received some weird fever dream texts from me at weird times at night. But when I say, “We’re not there yet,” none of you roll your eyes and call me a bitch, at least to my face. You all said, ‘Yeah, let’s keep going, let’s get there’, and we did.
On the carpet, Kravitz told hollywood reporter She came naturally to directing because “I had a range of emotions and didn’t know what to do with them, so I wrote something and then I ended up luckily doing it,” while pointing to Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Towers Lentino, Penny Marshall and John Cassavetes were her inspirations.
blink twice Released on August 23rd.
