Zoe Kravitz covers the latest issue of AnOther Magazine. She talks a lot about The Batman for some reason, even though that’s not due to come out until next year, and she talks about an album she’s working on with Jack Antonoff which still isn’t done either. Basically, I don’t think she’s promoting anything specific, I think she was just feeling chatty. Zoe has been at some kind of crossroads in the past year, separating from her husband and then getting a divorce, starting up with Channing Tatum, working through the pandemic, and on and on. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

On Hulu cancelling High Fidelity: “I don’t think the network understood the importance of that story, but I am still touched by how many women, especially women of colour, come up to me saying they loved it.”

On social media activism: “I feel like we’re living in a very odd time, where people confuse posting something with activism, which is not the same thing. There are people who dedicate their lives and their time and their physical bodies to being at rallies and meetings and being on the front lines. I always want to make it very clear that I am not that person. I’m not saving the world.

Feeling the need to do social-media activism: “That’s been a really difficult thing, emotionally, for me, where I’ve felt pressure to post something that I wasn’t ready to post about or didn’t know enough about. It affected me. It can feel like if you don’t post about something that means you don’t care about it. That’s conflicting for me because sometimes I don’t have enough information and need to learn more, or I don’t want to be on my phone today and something’s going on in the world. I’ll get a lot of hate for not talking about something, and I’m like, “I’m not a f–king news anchor.” Also, just because I don’t post on this thing it does not mean that I’m not feeling it or learning about it. My silence doesn’t mean I’m taking a side. The internet is not the real world.

Her research on Catwoman: “I’ve seen all the movies, yeah. I’ve read some of the comics now, but I wasn’t a comic head or anything. I also tried to think about it not as Catwoman, but as a woman, how does this make me feel? How are we approaching this and how are we making sure we’re not fetishising or creating a stereotype? I knew it needed to be a real person.

‘The Batman’ had a special feel: “Sometimes with really big movies, it can feel like you’re just a puppet and part of this big machine. This felt like an independent movie in the way that there was real heart and soul and thought being put into the process and into every scene. It was incredibly collaborative. Matt’s very specific. It took him a year to make this because of Covid. We were in this bubble, really in this world, and it was an incredible experience. To spend a year of your life, and it’s very physically demanding … I had to be in very specific shape, and there’s a pandemic going on. I’m being zipped into a catsuit every day at 7am, working 12-hour days and then coming home and working out. It was intense.

She’s recording a solo album: “I wrote it over a long stretch of time, subconsciously just capturing this range of emotions, which has been interesting to look back on and see what I was writing about them, then and now and in between. It’s personal. It’s about love and loss. I got married. I got divorced. Separations, break-ups are sad but are beautiful things too. It’s about the bittersweetness, that beginning and that end. It’s so complex, that space, when you’re in between heartbroken and mourning the loss of something and excited for what’s ahead of you.

Her 20s were crazy: “Now I’m holding on to my thirties and I’m like, “Can I just stay here, though? This is nice.” It’s great making better decisions, knowing what works for you, knowing what feels good to you, knowing what real fun is, not just the idea of fun. We’re in a sweet spot. We need to enjoy it and not pretend to be adults that don’t do fun things any more. It should be, “I’m in my thirties. Let’s do more things.”

[From AnOther]

“I’ll get a lot of hate for not talking about something, and I’m like, “I’m not a f–king news anchor.”…My silence doesn’t mean I’m taking a side. The internet is not the real world.” I felt that. Sometimes I don’t want to tweet or post about something too personal or too political, but that doesn’t mean I’m not feeling something or that I’m not watching and learning. Some people don’t want or need to perform their feelings online, and that’s fine. We need to get out of the collective headspace where everyone is required to have an opinion about everything all the time. I’m also really curious about her Catwoman! I want to know her vibe with Robert Pattinson in general, on screen and off. I bet they got along really well. I can’t wait for that promotional tour.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid, cover courtesy of AnOther.