Zoë Kravitz had to rewrite directorial debut ‘Pussy Island’ after #MeToo

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sexual abuse allegations against ex-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.“Pussy Island,” a psychological thriller recently acquired by MGM, will follow a cocktail waitress named Frida (Naomi Ackie), who sets her sights on the tech entrepreneur Slater King (Channing Tatum).

She finds herself in Slater’s inner circle and she is brought to his private island that houses a secret.In a profile with Elle magazine published Monday, Kravitz shed some light on her movie, saying it was inspired by “the lack of conversation around the way women are treated specifically in the entertainment industry.” The script underwent various changes to reflect the current status of gender issues.“I started writing it pre-#MeToo, pre-Harvey [Weinstein].

Then the world started to have the conversation, so [the script] changed a lot,” the “X-Men: First Class” actress said. “It became more about a power struggle and what that power struggle means.

I rewrote it a million times. Now we’re like, ‘Holy s–t. We’re doing this!’”Of her debut as a director, she revealed that she has “moments of being nervous.”“But I know the story so well, and I’m trying to focus less on ‘Am I going to do a good job?’ and more on ‘What is my intention?’”Last June, Kravitz opened up to Deadline about her flick, explaining that the title “means a lot of things.”The model continued, “I started writing this story in 2017.