Zoë Kravitz doesn’t want to throw the Rosemary’s Baby out with the bathwater. In an Esquire profile, she discussed loving work from accused/alleged/convicted bad people. Kravitz was specifically talking about her love of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby and The Tenant. Or rather, two movies directed by that man but not solely his work. Film is a collaborative medium, after all. “It’s OK that somebody bad was involved in something good,” she said. “What are we supposed to do, get rid of America?” Fair enough, a lot of people who made America suck ass.
Kravitz’s directorial debut, Blink Twice (f.k.a. Pussy Island) is at least partially about the murky moral navigations that late stage capitalist America forces on people. The film centers on a woman (Naomi Ackie) going to a tech billionaire’s freaky island. Would you believe things are not what they seem? Blink Twice premieres August 23.