At the premiere of her first film as a director Blink twice On Thursday, Zoë Kravitz took a moment to give a special thank you to the film’s star and her fiancé, Channing Tatum.
Before the screening at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, as Kravitz thanked the cast and crew who worked on the project, she told the crowd that she was “going to take just a second to talk about Channing fucking Tatum,” before reading a note she had written in her notebook.
“From producing to acting to giving pep talks to holding my head or feet while I cried on the bathroom floor because I thought I messed up, thank you for letting me be an ODC psychological control freak. Thank you for your patience,” she said. “Making this movie with you has been an amazing journey. Thank you for trusting me to direct you as a woman. It’s really cool to be able to make a movie, but when you do it with the love of your life, it’s even cooler.” The couple, who got engaged last year, also made their red carpet debut at the event.
Kravitz directed and co-wrote the film, a psychological thriller starring Tatum as Slater King, a tech billionaire who meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala. He invites her to join him and his friends on a vacation to his private island, where things start to go wrong.
Admitting that public speaking is his biggest fear, Kravitz also used his opening night speech to thank the film’s crew for taking “the time it took to make this movie what we dreamed it could be. You all worked harder than you were paid to do. You all lost sleep and probably your sanity over this project. You all got a number of strange text messages from me, at strange hours of the night. But none of you rolled your eyes and called me a bitch, at least to my face, when I said, ‘We’re not there yet.’ You all said, ‘Yeah, let’s go, let’s do it,’ and we did.”
On the mat, Kravitz said The Hollywood Reporter that she came to the director’s role quite naturally, because “I had a series of emotions and I didn’t know what to do with them, so I wrote something, and I finally got the chance to do it,” while citing Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Penny Marshall and John Cassavetes as her inspirations.
Blink twice hits theaters on August 23.
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