Zoë Kravitz Praises Gena Rowlands in New Video with Channing Tatum: 'One of the Best' Performances 'I've Ever Seen'

Mar. 15, 2025

Zoë KravitzandChanning Tatumare heaping praise uponGena Rowlands.

The engagedBlink Twicedirector, 35, and actor, 44, star in a new"Closet Picks" videofor The Criterion Collection, published Wednesday, Aug. 15, where they flirt and bond over some of their favorite films — including ones starring Rowlands. The video was shot before Rowlandsdied on Wednesday at age 94.

“I love Cassavetes — we love Cassavetes,” she added, to which Tatum agreed before they went on about “how incredible the ending” of the movie is.

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John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 1975.Max B. Miller/Fotos International/Getty Images

Other films they discussed includedThe Killing(1956),Midnight Cowboy(1969),Moonstruck(1987),Lord of the Flies(1990) andThe Fisher King(1991).

Of 1991’sThelma & Louise, Kravitz called it “a perfect movie,” adding, “I cry every single time. I love [Susan SarandonandGeena Davis] so, so much.” (Davis has a role inBlink Twice.)

“And a third. LittleBraddy Pitty,” Tatum said, to which Kravitz replied, “Oh well, yeah, duh.”

While talking about the 1988 thrillerThe Vanishing, Tatum told his fiancée, “Every time you go into a gas station and get anything, I just stare at the door. Like, I just try to see you.”

“I don’t like how short you are, ‘cause I can’t see you when you go behind the shelves,” the actor joked. " ‘Cause I’m just like, ‘Is she gonna come back out from behind the shelves?’ "

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum in a video for The Criterion Collection.criterioncollection/Youtube

criterioncollection/Youtube

Meanwhile,Blink Twice, which also starsNaomi Ackie,Adria Arjona,Haley Joel Osment,Alia Shawkatand more, was formerly calledPussy Island, but Kravitz changed the name ahead of the release.

The thriller stars Ackie, 31, as a cocktail waitress named Frida who “becomes infatuated” with Tatum’s Slater King, per a synopsis. Frida “travels with him to his private island, where things begin to go wrong."

While speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at themovie’s Los Angeles premiereon Aug. 8, Tatum insisted starring in his fiancée’s directorial debut was a great experience.

“To get to create something with someone that you love is probably one of the most gratifying things other than having a kid with somebody I think,” he said of what the “best part” about shooting a movie with his other half was.

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Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum at the premiere ofBlink Twicein Los Angeles on Aug. 8, 2024.Eric Charbonneau/Getty

Eric Charbonneau/Getty

“It’s one of those … you truly are creating something from nothing andit’s just like creating a marriageor creating something where you’re like, everything that we are is going into this thing and you want to make it with people that you love,” Tatum added.

Kravitz also had nothing but praise for her fiancé, telling PEOPLE of how filming the movie made their partnership stronger, “I think going through something creative like this with anybody makes you closer, and there’s so much trust there.”

“We got to work together and go through hard things together and support each other, and it was beautiful,” theBig Little Liesstar added.

Blink Twiceis in theaters Aug. 23.

source: people.com