Zoë Kravitz spent five years co-writing “Pussy Island” with E.
T.
Feigenbaum, but “The Batman” star reworked the script even further following the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and rise of the #MeToo movement.Psychological thriller “Pussy Island” centers on cocktail waitress Frida, rumored to be played by Naomi Ackie, who sets out to seduce tech mogul Slater King (Channing Tatum).
Once Frida finds herself in Slater’s inner circle, she is invited to his private island that has a sinister secret.Kravitz told Elle that the MGM-acquired film was originally inspired by “the lack of conversation around the way women are treated specifically in the entertainment industry,” and that the script had various iterations to make it the most current reflection of gender politics.“I started writing it pre-#MeToo, pre-Harvey [Weinstein].
Then the world started to have the conversation, so [the script] changed a lot,” Kravitz said.
“It became more about
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