Zoë Kravitz Directs 'Pussy Island'. Yes, A Woman Makes a Movie About Uber-Successful Male Power AOC Fashion

Zoë Kravitz chose the name of her new movie ‘Pussy Island’ to be confrontational. The film marks the actor’s directorial debut on the grounds of a Yucatán hacienda — “a land of bacchanalia and vice”, writes Hunter Harris for WSJ Magazine.

Kravitz covers the Fall 2022 Fashion issue, lensed by Campbell Addy [IG] with styling by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson.

Kravitz began writing the script for ‘Pusssy Island’ with E.T. Feigenbaum five years ago — on the front end of an emerging #MeToo movement. The film “was born out of a lot of anger and frustration around the lack of conversation about the treatment of women, specifically in industries that have a lot of money in them, like Hollywood, the tech world, all of that,” she says. “The title came from that world. The title is the seed of the story.”

The new director sought advice from Steven Soderbergh, who directed her in 2022’s ‘Kimi’. Numerous other friends read the script including actor-writer-director-musician Donald Glover who said “It feels really dangerous for a woman to make this story about power.”

Kravitz believes that it’s a scarry time to be an articulate person with an opinion. After the 2022 Oscars, she posted a pair of red-carpet photos of her dresses from the evening: “Here’s a picture of my dress at the show where we are apparently assaulting people on stage now,” read the first caption. When a commenter asked if she supported Smith defending Jada Pinkett Smith after Rock’s joke about her shaved head. Kravitz responded with a simple “nope.”

Internet wrath called for her head, anger so fierce that Kravitz deleted the images. “It’s a scary time to have an opinion or to say the wrong thing or to make controversial art or statements or thoughts or anything,” she says. “It’s mostly scary because art is about conversation. That should, in my opinion, always be the point. The internet is the opposite of conversation. The internet is people putting things out and not taking anything in.”

Operating within this mind-control right-wing and left-wing universe — with protect Black men, whatever they do, thrown in for good measure in the left-wing — Zoë Kravitz walks into the truth-serum, #MeToo light with ‘Pussy Island’.

We’ll be watching and supporting her in the good fight. ~ Anne