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F<\/span>or a film like Blink Twice, which opens on a close-up of a lizard, it is apt that its star Naomi Ackie is a chameleon. The classically-trained Londoner cut her teeth with a host of scene-stealing and idiosyncratic performances in Doctor Who and The End of The F**king World, winning a BAFTA for the latter. She followed those up as the star of the 3rd season of Master Of None, which played tribute to classic Ingmar Bergman, prior to disappearing into the title role of Kasi Lemmons\u2019 biopic, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody. In Zo\u00eb Kravitz\u2019s directorial debut she plays Frida, a struggling waitress and nail artist who is swept off her feet by the enigmatic tech mogul Slater King (Channing Tatum) only to discover that something is not right with this supposed escape to paradise.<\/p>\n

LWLies: What was that clear to you on the page that this film was something really special?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ackie: I remember when I was reading it I punched the air and was like, \u2018Yes!\u2019. You get this visceral gut thing. Reading the first draft, there was a clarity in it. It made sense to me, and that doesn\u2019t always have to happen when finding your next project. There was a clarity in the character and in the story. And it\u2019s only evolved since then, it\u2019s only become better. Yeah man, me and Zo\u00eb watched it together and I wanted to, like, pick her up and just throw her across the room. It was so good.<\/p>\n

With Zo\u00eb, I think people are going to make the comparison to when Jordan Peele stepped behind the camera and you\u2019re just like… Where has this been? This is Zo\u00eb\u2019s first film, and it has such a clear language.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard for me to tell sometimes because I\u2019m not a film buff. I\u2019m an actor, but I find it quite hard sometimes to be able to communicate why, in terms of how something is edited or lit, as to why it is good. But with this it was so clear \u2013 she\u2019s playing with form and she\u2019s playing with pace and made the world so immersive. I don\u2019t how she and her editor did this, but all the way through I was gripping my chair. And I know what happens.<\/p>\n

Even knowing what\u2019s going to happen for you as a performer, is it taxing to spend so much of a shoot immersed in a sense of impending doom?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, but also, it\u2019s really fun. There\u2019s this thing about being Frida where it\u2019s playing with her distraction, and her distraction is Slater King. So it\u2019s like the moments where it feels like she could be going. \u2018Hmm…\u2019 her focus goes back to him because that\u2019s the thing that she wants and he is like a blind spot to her. So it made each scene really dynamic because then you are playing into that inattention. I think I find it harder when I\u2019m just playing a character that has one straightforward goal. This was exciting to play as every scene I was more looking forward to figuring out how we were going to make it work and that was more the tax it would take on me. It was also that my body hurt sometimes from rolling around on the floor in the Mexican sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n\t“Frida wishes she could unzip him from the back, climb into his body and wear it as a skin suit.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sounds terrible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can\u2019t complain. Though I suppose I just did so I\u2019ll shut up.<\/p>\n

What is Frida drawn to with a billionaire who looks like Channing Taum? Jokes aside, do you see what it is that she\u2019s pulled in by?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember me and Zo\u00eb talking about this from the beginning. She wants to be with him, but she also wants to be him. It\u2019s more than he\u2019s rich and he\u2019s good looking and he has a private island. It\u2019s looking at someone and going, \u2018Your influence is what I want, your power is what I want.\u2019 That has a darker energy to it and we were trying to play with that. To be in the vicinity of power is to misguidedly feel like you\u2019re also powerful. Having them be kind of on the opposite ends of the scale in terms of race and gender and resources means she\u2019s looking at him and through him at the same time. Frida wishes she could unzip him from the back, climb into his body and wear it as a skin suit.<\/p>\n

One of the things I think is genuinely powerful is you\u2019re a very beautiful woman in a cast full of very beautiful women. But even though the film gets very dark, the black woman being in an alpha position felt quietly revolutionary to me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It felt revolutionary at the time. It\u2019s so funny about that because I have never identified as beautiful.<\/p>\n

Wild.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dude, I was thinking about this earlier. I never feel beautiful. I look in the mirror and I go, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s doable. You look all right.\u2019 So I\u2019ve never accessed that part of me, and for Frida that\u2019s perfect because she hasn\u2019t accessed that part of herself either, but she\u2019s trying to. And so, me trying to be her trying to be that desired thing also makes me question desirability in the first place. Because it is weird… Like, I love it and it does feel revolutionary, but also given the context of the film, you kind of don\u2019t want it to be the case for her. Obviously, the film is the film and Zo\u00eb is a Black woman and wants it to be a black woman at the forefront. What I love most is that it\u2019s revolutionary in that none of it is explicitly about race. There\u2019s no moment where I\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m a black woman!\u2019 in the film. Which is really fun for me because. usually when it comes to the more of the conflict-y dramatic stuff, that\u2019s something that you usually have to claim. Here it so happens to be a part of the story and if that speaks to you, amazing, and if it doesn\u2019t, there are other things for other people to look at. But those people might not notice that, actually, race is as much a part of the story as anything else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now that you are further down the line, have there been conversations with Zo\u00eb at all about what she saw in your interpretation of Frida that made you perfect for the role?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t audition for it. We just chatted but it was more that I think instantly we had this both the same understanding of what she was trying to say. I was so excited to talk about this script and I\u2019m excited to talk about it now. It speaks to so many parts of my experience personally, and I know a lot of people\u2019s experience. And so, we were talking from that angle. And what\u2019s so nice is, in that first conversation, we\u2019ve gone from like, \u2018Hey, how are you?\u2019 to talking about the themes of the script to me just being like, \u2018Okay, so in this scene, this is how I\u2019m thinking it would go.\u2019 You naturally start to strategise and problem solve before you\u2019ve even been offered the job. It felt really natural and sometimes when it comes to not auditioning for something, there\u2019s this weird thing where you\u2019re like, \u2018You sure you made the right decision? Like, I don\u2019t wanna fuck this up for you.\u2019 Whereas this, I never felt that. I was confident that I could do this. I understood Frida.<\/p>\n

Was there one particular scene that you discussed that conveyed that you really understood her?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the smallest scenes right at the beginning. She\u2019s waitressing and just putting all the dishes, the champagne glasses and stuff into the room and she\u2019s staring at Slater King through the window in the door. And that kind of like, gazing up at something saying she\u2019d break her neck to get to him. That feeling of just wanting something that is really close and just out of reach \u2013 I know that feeling. I used to work at the Almeida Theatre and I would be there on press nights going through with charcuterie boards for all the theatre people and I would look at like the actors and the actresses coming out afterwards and being celebrated and have an aching, desperate feeling.<\/p>\n

How does it feel that you\u2019re not just close now? You\u2019ve been Whitney Houston, you have awards, you\u2019re leading a truly stacked ensemble and following it up with a Bong Joon Ho movie. Do you feel you can stop as she says \u2018breaking your neck\u2019 to get to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a way, yes. I still want more, but more doesn\u2019t mean like a bigger cast and a bigger director, it just means more of that quality of work. The work gets me excited, but I guess in a way I do feel more chill because I reacted very well during the strike. I made it work for me. I took it as an advantage to live my life and I don\u2019t think I could say I would do that five years ago. I would have been freaking out.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s such a massive thing, particularly for black women because there is a tendency to overburden yourself. The female Black Panthers used to say that self-care is a revolutionary act \u2013 to just accept when you need a little bit of time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

True, and it\u2019s kind of crazy. I\u2019ve just started my newest job doing The Thursday Murder Club, which is so lovely. I\u2019m having so much fun. And it\u2019s a completely different vibe, it\u2019s a sweet comedy about murder. I mean it\u2019s as sweet as you can get when the subject matter is murder. But it\u2019s the first long job I\u2019ve had since the strike. And I was saying to my boyfriend that if this is my only job for the year, I\u2019m okay with that. And I\u2019ve never been in that place but I am saying to myself, \u2018Naomi you do not need to break your neck. You do not need to rush these things along.\u2019<\/p>\n

I mean look at Daniel Day-Lewis. You could take a break to go train as a cobbler in Florence like he did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I want to be like Daniel. I want to be like one of those actors you see once every two years and, as I get older, once every five. To keep pushing, making great films. Get my nice little place with my nice little dog. Have a real chill life. Make great films. Bob\u2019s your uncle, Fanny\u2019s your aunt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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