Zoe Kravitz got a little feature in the March issue of Allure (the one with Victoria Beckham and her hairless legs on the cover). She’s promoting the March release of Divergent. Zoe also appears in the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road that keeps getting pushed back and won’t come out until 2015. So this interview is really about Divergent.
Zoe plays Christina, a Dauntless pledge originally from the Candor faction. From what I remember about the book, the Candor were really annoying. They never hold anything back and have to say what’s on their minds at all times. Zoe says she’s a lot like her character, which seems surprising. I’ve been a little annoyed with her attitude before, but then I realized she was BFF with Jennifer Lawrence, which makes Zoe a cool chick by association. Plus her mom and dad (Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz) are the coolest of the cool. Speaking of her dad, Zoe confirms his claim that she steals his boas and fashion. It must be awesome to have a stylish dad. Mine still wears Burt Convy sweaters (sorry, dad). Here are some excerpts from Allure:
Her Divergent character: “She kind of has foot-in-mouth syndrome. She says whatever comes to mind.”
Is she like her character: “Yes. I will always play the obnoxious girl.”
She loves action movies: “When I think of girls in superhero films, I think of girls that I don’t look like. But that’s changing a bit, which is awesome. And they’re really fun to make, honestly.”
Her dad behaves like a Jewish mother: “He’s very proud and very excited whenever I do anything. He takes pictures and asks questions. It’s very sweet.”
Why she named her band Lolawolf: “It’s my brother’s and sister’s names put together. They’re four and five. [My music] turned out to be some kind of ’80s pop.”
Her personal style: “I’m into a ’70s feel right now. I’ve been wearing a lot of blues, bell-bottoms, sweatshirts, and stuff, kind of like Jodie Foster in Freaky Friday. I go to a lot of vintage stores, a lot of flea markets. I love finding one-of-a-kind treasures.”
She really stole Lenny’s boas: “Yeah, I do. They’re beautiful. They’re all in my apartment.”
On interest in her dating life: “Yeah. I don’t like it. It’s bizarre to me that people spend so much time talking about other people they don’t even know. There’s a lot more stuff to pay attention to rather than who I’m going to dinner with.”
[From Allure]
Zoe has dated several famous men including Penn Badgley and Kaiser’s ex-boyfriend, Michael Fassbender. She’s been rumored to have hooked up with both Chris Pine and Drake as well. Zoe has a right to be frustrated with people caring about her romantic interests, but that comes with the celebrity territory. She could avoid some attention by pulling a ScarJo and dating non-famous dudes, but that presents difficulties too. I think Zoe needs to let us have our celebrity gossip. If she doesn’t want to be a person of interest, she could always go civilian.
Photos courtesy of WENN
She has a super-pretty face but the shoes in the first picture do her toes no favors and the red nails just draw the eyes right to them.
Love her pops though, and would bang him like the proverbial barn door any day of the week.
That’s the first thing my eyes were drawn to. They look like dog paws.
Isn’t celebrity gossip one of the main things that really put her in people’s minds though?
really…I’m sure I like people who act like they are above basic human behavior. like too cool for the room. No one would be thinking of her if her parents were nobodies
I see what she’s saying…. I have no idea why I’m posting here and interested in these peoples’ lives when I don’t even know them personally and have never even seen them in real life before.
Posting here is a way for me to turn off my brain for a bit but still… I probably could find more productive uses of my time.
Obviously gossip is a huge industry though that celebs profit from, some more than others.
I don’t mind her, but I HATE when celebrities pretend to not understand gossip sites. Everybody has gossiped about somebody before at least once in their life. Give me a break. And if it wasn’t for people talking about you in Hollywood, then you wouldn’t be as successful as you are. Go weep in your millions.
I came here to say the same thing just seeing the title, but you said it so much better.
Seriously.
That drives me crazy, too. You don’t understand gossip? Really? You’ve never sat around and talked sh-t about someone you don’t really know? I’m going to need empirical proof before I believe she doesn’t understand the context of gossip in celebrity culture.
So you just sit around with your friends making fun of what people wear? I think she doesn’t understand why people need to know who is having sex or why people are so mean.
^This! Unbelievable. It’s not immoral to gossip. And it’s not uncool. It is fun and entertaining. It’s primal. Curiousity and exploring the world are vital to survival. Word of mouth is how people’s inventions and discoveries were first publicized. When the first guy discovered fire – how do you think others learned of the phenomenon and its properties? And today we have lighters that are handheld and stoves, etc. You think if the imperative was to keep our mouths shut anyone would ever be successful thwarting danger and threats? Don’t get me started. Sure it never saved anyone’s life to gossip, but if you want to live as a shut in from the rest of the world that’s your prerogative. Have fun learning everything firsthand.
Yes but normal people gossip about people they know, they don’t see some random stranger on a street and talking about how much of a prick they are or accusing them of being an alcoholic. It’s silly that people will defend Jennifer Lawrence when she complains about fame but when this woman does it she needs to shut her mouth, basically most people on gossip sites are just internet trolls who get mad when they get called out on being a hypocritical bully.
Maybe bc Jennifer Lawrence is actually famous and not just spawned from famous people. She’s very pretty though.
Amity were the drugged up hippies. Candor was the honest to a fault faction.
Damn Lenny looks yummy; that’s all I came here to say.
I’m so old. I remember when she was born. Well I wasn’t there, but you know what I mean.
Well is she even that good as an actress only saw her in Xmen. Plus Lisa/Lenny way hotter. Love love Lenny, Let Love Rule….
She hasn’t really given me famewhore vibes (she doesn’t even have a twitter), and her parents seem to have taught her well in general (Lenny sounds like such a sweet, caring dad). Guess I’ll just give her a pass. Anyway, looking forward to seeing her as Christina! Hopefully she was the right pick.
Come on, it’s not like anyone even knows who she is except for who she dates! She’s well-known-ish because she dated Michael Fassbender, and then Penn Badgley, I bet most people don’t even remember she was in X-Men (and clearly she wasn’t special enough for them to want her to stay on for Days of Future Past). Her career might get better if Divergent is a success but definitely not like it will work out for Shailene Woodley and Theo James. In any case, celebrity gossip is part of the deal. Anyone going into acting knows that these days. I can’t stand this girl. She’s a mediocre actress at best, and the only reason she gets any jobs is because of her last name.
I do not see her appeal. At all.
If she didn’t have Lenny and Lisa as parents and first hand knowledge of the Fassdong no one would be interested in her.
I want Lenny. That is all.
Zoe also dated Ben Foster who is now engaged to Robin Wright who was married to Sean Penn who was married to Madonna who slept with Warren Beatty who dated Diane Keaton who had a romantic relationship with Woody Allen who famously never married or lived with Mia Farrow who married Frank Sinatra….okay! you get the picture.
interesting six degrees! And also interesting that Zoe is the exact opposite of Robin Wright as style it is, what’s on Ben Foster’s mind? The Fassdong is said to been into the Wright’s vagina some years ago, they hooked up at Cannes when she was a fresh divorced Festival’s Juror looking for a new dong and he was promoting Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. I don’t know if he was with Zoe at the time, but he and Robin danced and had drinks all night long and left the premiere’s party together.
Very pretty girl & obviously awesome pedigree but she always seems a bit full of herself.
I actually get this from her. She can’t really ‘go civilian’. She’s a celeb kid. I think she is speaking from the perspective of a kid who grew up with famous parents and watched the gossip about them. Now she’s experiencing it herself. Kids who grew up idolizing stars in magazines I think see it differently than the kids who grew up with their parents and friends in every gossip mag. Where is the enjoyment and fascination for them?
The only reason she’s in movies or articles is for her last name. This hipster girl is so boring, unoriginal, and untalented but still gets into films and designer campaigns? I can’t blame her for taking it all in, because who wouldn’t? But she is in no way relevant. Beside a small role in Divergent, which looks terrible.
But hey, she got to bone Fassy for awhile (when he was still hot) so that’s something. I don’t envy her hanging out with JLaw. She seems super annoying.
I understand what she is saying, you have some people who go way overboard worrying about other peoples love lives, take Rihanna and Drake for instance you have people are going nuts about if they are seeing each other or not acting like they know these peoples every move, etc. So she does make a point to me, some people get too deep into some of these celebrities person lives.