{"id":3493,"date":"2024-08-22T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/blink-twice-meet-the-cast-of-zoe-kravitzs-directorial-debut-in-theaters-aug-21\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:20:03","slug":"blink-twice-meet-the-cast-of-zoe-kravitzs-directorial-debut-in-theaters-aug-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energetic-pink-donkey.109-123-235-239.cpanel.site\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blink Twice&#8221;: Meet The Cast Of Zo\u00eb Kravitz\u2019s Directorial Debut, In Theaters Aug 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zo\u00eb Kravitz\u2019s directorial debut, \u201cBlink Twice,\u201d is a party-turned-nightmare about the want of power, the abuse of power and taking power back. The film features a captivating performance from Naomi Ackie as Frida, a complicated heroine who challenges victim narratives. <\/p>\n<p>On why she cast Ackie as her film\u2019s main character, Frida, Kravitz says that Ackie brought a sweetness to Frida that she wasn\u2019t expecting. \u201cIt was a bigger leap than I was thinking originally from the badass that she becomes,\u201d Kravitz says of Ackie\u2019s performance. \u201cThere\u2019s a big innocence to her that\u2019s part of her face too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the other main character, Slater King, Kravitz wanted someone who was charming and who would make the audience feel safe. \u201cWho else is that but Channing Tatum?\u201d she says. \u201cThe whole world would be like, yes, I would go on vacation with you and feel totally safe. There\u2019s nothing creepy about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the psychological thriller \u201cBlink Twice,\u201d when tech billionaire Slater King (Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks immediately fly. He then invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. She\u2019ll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this party alive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCuT-klGby4?si=5WYSXAc3KvS_-arI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Keeping the party alive<\/p>\n<p>For the characters that surround Frida and Slater \u2013 the women in Frida\u2019s position and the guys that are part of Slater\u2019s posse \u2013 Kravitz was intent on building an ensemble that the audience wanted to hang out with, keeping the party alive before things get very dark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was important that it felt like one big group,\u201d says the director. In that she looked to bring in a range of personalities. Christian Slater plays Vic, the jerk that the rest of them put up with, while Haley Joel Osment is Tom, who has a sweetness that masks microaggression. Simon Rex is Cody, in Kravitz\u2019s words an \u201coverly Kumbaya dude\u201d who annoys the other guests as he blathers on about what he has made for dinner, while Levon Hawke is the innocent Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Frida arrives with her best friend Jess, played by Alia Shawkat. \u201cJess is kind of the whistleblower, if you will,\u201d Shawkat says.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ackie, cultivating a \u201cbest friend vibe\u201d with Shawkat was easy. \u201cWe found out we had a similar sense of humor,\u201d Ackie says. \u201cWe were dancing together, we were drinking together, we were talking about deep s**t, we were talking about art, we were talking about friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Frida and Jess, the other women on the island include Adria Arjona as Sarah, a \u201cSurvivor\u201d alum with whom other women feel competitive, as well as Liz Caribel Sierra and Trew Mullen as the fun-loving Camila and Heather, respectively. In Heather, Kravitz fulfilled her dream of wanting to create \u201ca female Spicoli, stoner character.\u201d Spicoli is the stoner dude in the 1982 cult classic \u201cFast Times at Ridgemont High,\u201d popularized by Sean Penn. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are all kind of based on people that I know and kind of finding the different personalities and fitting them together was like a puzzle,\u201d Kravitz says.<\/p>\n<p>Geena Davis, meanwhile, plays Stacy, one of Slater\u2019s sisters, who symbolizes female complicity in his actions. Considering Davis\u2019s activism around women in film, her presence offers a bit of a meta text for the viewer. \u201cI\u2019ve been such a huge fan of Geena\u2019s forever,\u201d Kravitz says. \u201cShe\u2019s one of the people who has been having this conversation way before, so the fact that she read it and got it and wanted to be a part of it, felt really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the caliber of the ensemble, producer Bruce Cohen says: \u201cWe punched way above our weight in terms of getting this extraordinary ensemble of actors to be in the movie in what on the page could have been smaller parts than they might have been interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow producer Tiffany Persons agrees, saying that the casting is what \u201cmade the magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss \u201cBlink Twice,\u201d distributed in the Philippines by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Discovery company, opening only in cinemas August 21. #BlinkTwiceMovie<\/p>\n<h6><credit>Photo &#038; Video Credit: Parisa Taghizadeh, Warner Bros. Pictures<\/credit><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for a film that challenges conventions? 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