You might have to Blink Twice to shed tears after reading Zoë Kravitz‘s heartfelt thank you letter.
At the premiere of her directorial debut, Blink Twice, on Thursday, Kravitz, 35, took “just one second to talk about Channing f**king Tatum.” From her notebook, she read aloud a sweet thank-you dedicated to the film’s star and her fiancé, Channing Tatum, 44.
“From producing to performing to the pep talks to holding my head or my feet while I cried on the bathroom floor because I thought I f**ked it all up, thank you for letting me be a complete OCD psycho control freak,” Kravitz said ahead of the screening at Los Angeles’ DGA Theatre. “Thank you for your patience. Making this film with you has been an awfully great adventure.”
She continued, “Thank you for trusting me to female direct you. It’s really very cool to get to make a movie, but when you get to do it with the love of your life it’s even cooler.”
Kravitz then thanked the rest of the cast and crew who worked on the project.
Blink Twice is a psychological thriller directed and co-written by Kravitz. It stars Tatum as Slater King, a tech billionaire who meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala. He invites her to join him and his friends on a vacation to his private island, but Frida soon finds out that paradise isn’t all that it seems.
In the two years since filming kicked off, Kravitz and Channing have gone public with their romance. They first sparked dating rumors in August 2021. ET learned in late October 2023 that the 21 Jump Street star and the Batman actress had gotten engaged. The two have kept their relationship relatively private, but they made their black carpet debut at the Blink Twice premiere.
On the carpet, they each spoke with ET‘s Cassie DiLaura about what it was like working together.
“I think there is so much trust there,” Kravitz explained, “and you’re able to go to places that maybe you couldn’t go with someone that you maybe don’t know as well.”
“So it was a really beautiful experience to work together creatively,” she added.
For Tatum, getting the chance to act under the direction of the woman he loves and getting to collaborate together was a relationship-cementing experience.
“It was really interesting, because we started as friends just working on a project that we both really believe in,” Tatum told ET. “When things start in that creative place… you just respect each other’s point of view, you respect each other’s mind, each other’s experience in life.”
“I now don’t know what I would do creating without her,” he continued. “Everybody was like, ‘You sure you want to go create with your partner?’ But I actually suggest that to almost everyone now, ’cause you really get to know who that person is and what they are to you and who they are to you when you’re in the trenches.”
“You go, ‘Alright, I need to have your perspective right now. Tell me tell me what to do, tell me how to do it. Tell me what I don’t know and what I’m not seeing,'” he added.
Kravitz’s romance with Tatum is her first since her public split from ex-husband Karl Glusman. The two ended their relationship after 18 months of marriage in 2021. Meanwhile, Tatum was previously married to his Step Up co-star, Jenna Dewan, from 2009 to 2019, and they share daughter Everly, 11.
Blink Twice hits theaters Aug. 23.
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