Zoë Kravitz Says She Renamed 'P***y Island' Because Some ‘Women Were Offended’
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The actress turned director said audiences were “not ready” for her film "Blink Twice"'s original title.
Zoë Kravitz is opening up about why her goal to “reclaim” the word “pussy” with her latest project didn’t go over so well.
While speaking with Entertainment Weekly, the “Batman” star, 35, reflected on her directorial debut with the upcoming thriller, “Blink Twice,” and explained why she had to nix its original title, “Pussy Island.”
“It was made very clear to me that ‘pussy’ is a word that we, our society, are not ready to embrace yet,” she said in the July 9 interview. “There were a lot of roadblocks along the way, whether it be the MPAA not wanting to put it on a poster, or a billboard, or a kiosk; movie theaters not wanting to put it on a ticket.”
Kravitz said she ultimately had to change the title after discovering some women — the film’s target audience — were put off by the term.
“Women seeing the title were saying, ‘I don’t want to see that movie,’ which is part of the reason I wanted to try and use the word, which is trying to reclaim the word, and not make it something that we’re so uncomfortable using,” Kravitz explained.
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