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Naomi Ackie Knows She’s Good. When Will the Box Office?
The actor has critical acclaim but no mainstream success. She hopes Zoë Kravitz’s thriller Blink Twice changes that.
Ackie started these daily walks during the pandemic after moving out of a house share into her own place, though she’s quick to add that she’s still renting: “I don’t come from money.” As we talk, she smoothly navigates by the bikes whizzing past us and coos at cute dogs. Ackie plays Frida, an undervalued caterer infatuated with a billionaire tech bro named Slater King (an unsettling Channing Tatum), who has recently been canceled for an unnamed indiscretion. Although she travels there frequently for her career, she refuses to move to L.A., where everyone is “an actor, writer, producer, director, an Instagram model.” When she’s not working, she’s reading fantasy novels (she’s especially excited for the next installment of Children of Blood and Bone), strength training at the gym, or hanging out with her boyfriend.
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