Despite its less-than-stellar opening weekend at the box office, Blink Twice has received the Taylor Swift stamp of approval.
The Grammy Award winner took to her Instagram Story to praise pal Zoë Kravitz‘s feature directorial debut on the psychological thriller, which opened this weekend to $7.1 million, starring Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie.
“This film is incredible. Thrilling, twisted, wickedly funny, and visually stunning,” wrote Swift. “The performances are phenomenal. @zoeisabellakravitz conceptualized this, wrote it, obsessed over every detail, and directed it with such a clear and bold vision. I’m so blown away by what she’s accomplished here and I can’t wait to watch everyone discover this film and this brilliant filmmaker.”
Blink Twice follows cocktail waitress Frida (Ackie), who becomes infatuated with tech billionaire Slater King (Tatum) and joins him on a trip to his private island, where strange things begin to happen. Written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, the movie also stars Alia Shawkat, Haley Joel Osment, Simon Rex, Geena Davis, Kyle MacLachlan, Christian Slater and Adria Arjona.
Swift previously showed support for her friend Ryan Reynolds when his summer blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine premiered last month, having since surpassed $1 billion to become the biggest R-rated movie ever.
Channing Tatum and director Zoë Kravitz on the set of Blink Twice (2024). (Carlos Somonte/Amazon MGM Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection)
“Over the past few years I have watched one of my best friends on this planet pour every bit of his heart, soul, sweat, time, energy, jokes, pain, joy, rebellion, darkness, and magic into this film. He’s created the best work of his life, and this film feels like an actual joy portal, a wild escape from reality, and an abs sandwich. I don’t know how he did it,” she wrote with a group photo of herself, Reynolds, Blake Lively, Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy.
“But that’s just Hugh for you! These other randoms crashed the photo and we were too polite to ask them to leave,” joked Swift, adding: “Shout out to Wade Wilson, aka my godkids’ sperm donor!”
Meanwhile, Swift has yet to publicly endorse Lively’s It Ends with Us, which briefly surpassed Deadpool & Wolverine after a $80 million opening.
The adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s novel — which feature’s Swift’s ‘My Tears Ricochet’ on the soundtrack — has been met with controversy over Lively’s light approach to the film’s subject matter of assault and domestic violence during the press tour.
