Why Zoe Kravitz Decided To Direct Psychological Thriller Blink Twice

Blink Twice, an upcoming psychological thriller, written by Zoe Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, stars Naomi Ackie as Frida. She is a cocktail waitress who gets invited to billionaire Slater King’s (played by Channing Tatum) private island for a party. However, she soon finds out that there is more to what meets the eye. Her best friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) goes missing, and none of the other people at the party seem to care about it. This drama, originally titled Pussy Island, is actress Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut.

While in conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Zoe Kravitz shared that after working on the script for years, she felt so connected that she couldn’t trust anyone else to direct but herself.

“I worked on the script for such a long time. I started writing in 2017, and we shot the movie in 2021. I feel like that journey of just being so engrossed in the creation process, by the time we were really talking about actually making the film, I could see this world and these characters so clearly in my mind and I didn’t feel like I would be able to handle trusting somebody else to bring this to life. So it felt directing was something I always knew I wanted to do, and this just felt like the most natural progression in terms of just the situation I found myself in,” she said.

The psychological drama was originally titled Pussy Island. It stars Channing Tatum and Hitman’s Adria Arjona in lead roles.

The first-time director said that while it is normal for films to take some time to make, the extra-long process of bringing Blink Twice to life “wasn’t intentional” but ended up doing good to the film. “A lot of subject matters and things that are in the script kept on changing quite drastically culturally in the zeitgeist. So, of course, we had to rewrite and adapt to that as well,” she further told the outlet.

Blink Twice will be released in theatres on 23 August 2024.