Zoë Kravitz explains ‘Pussy Island’ movie title change: ‘Women were offended by the word’

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is now called “Blink Twice.”The 35-year-old star opened up about the title change to Entertainment Weekly.“It was made very clear to me that ‘pussy’ is a word that we, our society, are not ready to embrace yet,” she said in the interview published Tuesday.“There were a lot of roadblocks along the way, whether it be the MPAA not wanting to put it on a poster, or a billboard, or a kiosk; movie theaters not wanting to put it on a ticket,” Kravitz added.The “Big Little Lies” star wrote “Blink Twice” with E.T.

Feigenbaum. It stars her fiancé, Channing Tatum, as well as Naomi Ackie, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis.

The story follows Slater King (Tatum), a tech executive who invites a cocktail waitress named Frida (Ackie) to his private island for some ill-fated fun.Kravitz told EW: “Interestingly enough, after researching it, women were offended by the word, and women seeing the title were saying, ‘I don’t want to see that movie,’ which is part of the reason I wanted to try and use the word, which is trying to reclaim the word, and not make it something that we’re so uncomfortable using.”“But we’re not there yet,” she noted. “And I think that’s something I have the responsibility as a filmmaker to listen to.

I care about people seeing the film, and I care about how it makes people feel.”Despite the major change to the film, Kravitz said that the original NSFW name is still applicable.“I do believe that ‘Pussy Island’ was the first thing I wrote down when I wrote this movie, and it’s the seed of the film, and the spirit of what that means to me is still alive and very much present in the film,” she explained. “And I love the new title.