From Kravitz actress known for her roles in films such as The Batman, Divergent o Mad Max: Fury on the road has made the leap to direction with Blinks twice. The tape, written by herself along with ET Fig Tree already has a trailer.
In production, the technology magnate Slater King (Channing Tatum) meet the waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) and invites her to go on a trip to his private island, but things will start to go wrong and the young woman will have to discover what is really happening to get out alive. The preview shows Slater introducing Frida to his friends.
“Slater King’s legendary parties are not how I had imagined them,” Frida confesses. “We still have fun, but now they are a little different. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do,” says the millionaire. However, Frida’s friend realizes something is wrong. “Something strange happens in this place“, he tells her Jess (Alia Shawkat), which disappears on the island. “I feel like we are forgetting a lot of things,” says Frida, who has to start investigating.
In addition to the aforementioned actors, the cast is completed Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Levon Hawke y Saul Williams, among others. The feature film hits theaters on August 23.
A film with “very uncomfortable themes”
In an interview with Entertainment WeeklyTatum gave some details about Blinks twice. “I play someone a little darker than what I’ve played before,” the actor said.
“We’re definitely going to explore some very uncomfortable topics and I don’t want to give too much away, but I’ve never played a character like this. It was scary to do it, because give something to talk when it comes out. I think people will want to talk about it. That’s the goal, in a way. “It is destined to disturb you,” added the protagonist, who is Kravitz’s romantic partner.
“I was looking for someone who had never played a dark character before. It’s exciting to see someone who has mainly played the boy next door, the good guy, the love interest, all that… I felt, even before I met him, that was a feminist and that he wasn’t afraid to explore that darkness,” Kravitz told WSJ Magazine about Tatum’s election.