The talented actor/director Zoë Kravitz covers the March 2025 issue of ELLE US [IG]. Stella Greenspan styles Kravitz in ‘The Unshakable Confidence of Zoë Kravitz’ lensed by Collier Schorr [IG]./ Hair by Nikki Nelms; makeup by Nina Park

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Tyler McCall catches up with Zoë Kravitz at DIMES, in New York City’s Dimes Square, “a micro-neighborhood on the border of Chinatown and the Lower East Side” preferred by “artistic tastemakers”. Kravitz, who has juggled her personal life on two coasts plus Miami for decades, has come to love New York City.

“I feel like I’m part of something when I’m here,” she says. “Some people find it chaotic, but I find it calming, and I find myself fed by the energy of the city. This is a place where I can be alone, but not feel alone. It’s an incredibly special place, and I find it really inspiring. It’s not as segregated as other cities, and you’re around really different kinds of people, with different kinds of interests. Even the sound. And people go, ‘It’s noisy.’ I’m like, ‘I find it comforting.’ ”

Kravitz’s movie ‘Blink Twice’, where she debuted as director, is behind her. The ending is now public, and it was bone-chilling, to put it mildly. It’s a good day when women are directing films this ‘deadly’ with a MeToo perspective.

AOC covered the plot and its focus on male power in-depth in August 2022. At the time, Kravitz wanted the title of the movie to be ‘Pussy Island’, a controversial if better title. The film is streaming now on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, You Tube TV and more.

Kravitz cautions people to look at the film as a story about power dynamics in general, and not only through the MeToo lens of the film. Power corrupts, says Kravitz, implying that we don’t really know how we will behave until we know what it is to have great power ourselves.

Kravitz will appear opposite Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Steeling’, out Aug. 29, 2025.