Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut is firmly, provocatively, and permanently titled “Pussy Island.”Kravitz spent five years penning the script with E.T.
Feigenbaum (“High Fidelity”) before the #MeToo movement made her rethink the premise and rewrite the script “a million times.”“The title came from that world,” Kravitz told The Wall Street Journal Magazine.
“The title is the seed of the story.
It represents this time where it would be acceptable for a group of men to call a place that, and the illusion that we’re out of that time now.”“Pussy Island” centers on cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie), who accepts an invitation to visit the remote private island owned by a tech mogul (Channing Tatum).
The film, co-produced by Tatum, 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,
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