Zoë Kravitz said the script for 'Pussy Island,' which she co-wrote, was born out of a lot of anger and frustration around the lack of conversation about the treatment of women
By Hunter Harris | Photography by Campbell Addy for WSJ. Magazine | Styling by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson“Pussy Island” is about a Los Angeles cocktail waitress who accepts an invitation to be whisked away to a tech mogul’s private island.“All the iterations it has gone through were all pretty punk rock, to be honest,” says Tatum of Kravitz’s directorial debut.
The 33-year-old had heard stories about powerful men inviting women to remote islands for hazy hedonist free-for-alls. What’s the version of that reality that I myself would want to see, Kravitz wondered.The title is intentionally provocative. It was the first thing that came to her when she started writing the script five years ago, before the #MeToo movement shook up Hollywood. “The title came from that world. The title is the seed of the story,” she says.
Kravitz sent the script to her friends. “I thought that the script was dangerous, which I liked,” says one, fellow actor-writer-director-musician Donald Glover.Steven Soderbergh, who directed her in this year’s “Kimi,” said: “Of the people that I could name who I think have a real shot at coming out of the gate making something really distinctive and strong,Having said that, you really don’t know somebody until they show up on day one as the director.
Kravitz describes the transition from being in front of the camera to behind it as using a different part of her brain. “I’m learning a lot about what it takes to make a movie and,” she says. “I’m just kind of sitting back and learning and trying to not constantly be in a state of panic.” "Being an artist is not about everybody loving you or everyone thinking you’re hot. It’s about expressing something that will hopefully spark a conversation or inspire people or make them feel seen,” she says. “I think I’m in a place right now where I don’t want to express myself through a caption or a tweet. I want to express myself through art.
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