Debutant director and actress Zoe Kravitz has shared details about why she cast Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie in the upcoming psychological thriller "Blink Twice."
According to Kravitz, she was in search of a certain kind of charm in an actor who makes one feel safe.
"Who else is that but Channing Tatum?" she said.
The whole world would be like, yes, I would go on vacation with you and feel totally safe. There's nothing creepy about him," Kravitz added.
She also had the inkling that Tatum himself was a feminist courtesy his work in the "Magic Mike" movies.
Finding the perfect actor for the character of Frida was a "whole other journey" for Kravitz.
"It's a hard part," said Kravitz.
The actress-filmmaker said: "She's many things at once. You kind of never really get a real handle on who she is. How manipulative is she? How unaware? Is she the villain? Is she the victim? There's so many different elements to that character."
Ackie remembers that what was supposed to be an initial chat with Kravitz turned into a two-hour conversation around the ideas of the film.
"There was a lot that conversation brought up for me around the idea of the pursuit of power, about sexual assault, but also about Frida's want for something more," Ackie said.
The actress explained, "Her relationship with the symbol of power that is Slater, how that affects her and that gives her blind spots to certain things. There are a lot of different things going on at the same time about how people are interacting with each other when it comes to these ideas of status and money, and they're all abusing it in one way or another.".
The two discussed Frida as quite an "interesting, imperfect character, and how that made her a really an interesting victim."
The film is being released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures and opens in cinemas on August 23 in India.
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