"Blink twice if I'm in danger."
In an unsettling anthem to female empowerment, actor, singer, and fashion arbiter Zoë Kravitz is spreading her wings in her directorial debut, Blink Twice. Cowritten by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, this dark psychological thriller is about the treatment of women by the rich and powerful. Best friends Frida (Naomi Ackie) and Jess (Alia Shawkat) are waitresses who decide to “party crash” tech billionaire Slater King’s (Channing Tatum) charity event gala. Dressed in chic bright red and royal blue cocktail dresses, they catch King’s attention and he invites them to join him and friends on his private island for a few days. Frida teasingly asks partygoer Rich (Kyle MacLachlan) to “blink twice if I’m in danger.”
Costume designer Colleen Atwood and assistant costume designer Kiersten Hargroder prepped what they could at Western Costume Company. Since Atwood had prior commitments, only Hargroder would be on board at the luxury spa resort an hour outside Mérida, Mexico. Their original plan was to have a local vendor make the women one-size-fits-all caftans that King provides for guests, but Kravitz, known for her keen sense of style, had clear ideas of what she wanted. Three days before shooting started, she requested the women be in similar all-white dresses and bathing suits. “The feeling was that all these women were interchangeable, so they almost had a uniform,” explains Hargroder.
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