First-time director Zoë Kravitz and her fiancé Channing Tatum’s new thriller "Blink Twice" has finally hit theaters, and with a twist ending like that, it seems fans will finally have something to discuss other than their joint red carpet appearances and Tatum’s viral Gambit memes. I had a chance to sit down with the stars of the film, Tatum and Naomi Ackie, and they discussed that massive climax and the challenges of playing a twist ending. First, let’s recap the twist in question.
WARNING. This article contains SPOILERS for "Blink Twice" beyond this point.
Naomi Ackie’s Frida meets Channing Tatum’s Slater King, a tech billionaire recovering from his cultural shaming public cancellation. He invites her to join him, a gaggle of his degenerate friends and their dates to his private island which, at the time, seems like a dream come true for the broke, struggling Frida. During the day, they drink bottomless glasses of champagne, smoke weed and lounge by the pool. In the evening, they eat fancy dinners, trip on hallucinogenics and dance in the garden with reckless abandon. Late at night, however, something far more sinister is taking place.
WARNING. This article contains SPOILERS for "Blink Twice" beyond this point.
Naomi Ackie’s Frida meets Channing Tatum’s Slater King, a tech billionaire recovering from his cultural shaming public cancellation. He invites her to join him, a gaggle of his degenerate friends and their dates to his private island which, at the time, seems like a dream come true for the broke, struggling Frida. During the day, they drink bottomless glasses of champagne, smoke weed and lounge by the pool. In the evening, they eat fancy dinners, trip on hallucinogenics and dance in the garden with reckless abandon. Late at night, however, something far more sinister is taking place.
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00:00My favorite line in this movie was when you look at her and say,
00:05I'm not going to kill you. You're like my best friend.
00:08Oh my God, yes!
00:10He's in another world, man.
00:12He's like something else is going on.
00:14The narrative inside of his brain is something different.
00:17Everybody's dead.
00:19My favorite is the boop.
00:20It was the boop after.
00:22And that was fully Zoey.
00:24Zoey, like, you know, because I would say, you're my best friend.
00:27And she goes, just booper.
00:30And I was like, booper?
00:32I was like, booper? Like, boop?
00:34Like, really? Like, super bad?
00:37Boop, boop, boop.
00:39And she was like, yeah.
00:41I love that because it implies that she's done it many times before.
00:45That's like a thing that you have and she has no idea.
00:47No one knows.
00:48We've played with a lot of different other versions.
00:51At one point, she had been there multiple, multiple times.
00:55Not just one other time or whatever.
00:57And, like, lots of this has happened, like, a lot, a lot.
01:00But, you know, it was a little confusing and esoteric
01:04to, like, kind of draw out what that really would mean
01:08and, like, kind of justify it.
01:10So I think simplifying it was better and making it, like, one time.
01:14And it was, but, yeah.
01:17Yeah, knowing it, it's a weird thing to have to play
01:20and sort of, you know, poker faces is always the best face, I guess.
01:25I think twice if I'm in danger.
01:27Well, maybe now it's time to answer that one, right?
01:29I think, like, you know, you just play the given circumstance
01:34instead of playing, it's like the old,
01:37it's the thing about Shakespeare, tragedy.
01:39You don't play the tragedy, you play the thing before the thing.
01:42No one ever should know, you know what I mean?
01:44Yeah.
01:45All right, so, acting.
01:46Acting!
01:48I love that you hit us with some Shakespeare talk.
01:51Yeah, as a thespian.
01:54Not a thespian, that's not right.
01:56As a thespian.
01:57We need to find out what's really going on.
02:04It's a really special place.