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When You’re Too Obsessed With Channing Tatum to Eat the Rich

Blink Twice director Zoë Kravitz is so enamored with her muse, she forgets he’s playing a tech-bro billionaire.

Here was Hollywood’s favorite affable himbo choosing to play a dangerous billionaire tech bro capable of entrapping young women, thus flipping his image as a sweet-natured golden retriever of a man, bolstered and refined by the Magic Mike films that positioned him as keenly interested in female pleasure. After she put her own spin on a slinky Catwoman in The Batman(2022) and played the agoraphobe in Steven Soderbergh’s thrilling Kimi(2022), I started to be intrigued by her potential as a storyteller, too, who could do more than produce an alluring but thinly drawn vibe. Toward the end of the film, Slater is found repeating similar verbiage from the video Frida played before the gala, apologizing until he is basically screaming “I am sorry,” spittle flying, face tense, body curved and crouched low.

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