Zoë Kravitz Says Writing ‘Blink Twice’ Was Initially A Way To Purge: ‘I Needed To Let Out This Emotion I Was Having’

What was initially a way for her to express her feelings became a highly anticipated film that Zoë Kravitz wrote and directed.

Blink Twice is Zoë’s directorial debut. It touches on an important topic that has dominated the news cycle for the last few years: the #MeTooMovement.

Starring the multihyphenate's fiancé, Channing Tatum, and Naomi Ackie, the story follows Frida, played by Ackie, a waitress who meets her crush, Slater, played by Tatum, a charming billionaire, at a party and gets the opportunity of a lifetime to go to his private island.

However, after days go by, Frida discovers her best friend, who accompanied her on the island, is missing, and this leads her to find out what’s really been happening to the women on the trip.

Zoë recently sat down with xoNecole to discuss her decision to make this film, why she left the ending up to viewers’ own interpretation and more.

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Channing Tatum, Zoë Kravitz, and Naomi Ackie

“I didn’t plan on directing this. I also didn’t even intend on making it when I started writing it,” she tells xoNecole. “I just needed to kinda let out this emotion that I was having and feeling like I didn’t have a place to put it or a way to work it out.

“And then, the more I wrote, the more the story developed. And I saw the movie very clearly in my mind, and once we got the script to a place where we thought, ‘Oh, we might actually make this,’ I just felt so protective of it.

“I saw it so clearly that I was afraid that if I passed it on to someone else to direct, it wouldn’t be what I wanted it to be, and so I just said, ‘Okay, I’m gonna do it.’”

Watch the full interview below.

Feature image by Gillian Smith Chang