Inside Zoë Kravitz's Twisted Mind

You have an idea in your head of who Zoë Kravitz is. Edgy. Boho. Hippie. Cool. She probably says “Perú” with an accent. Maybe it’s the tiny tattoos that curl around her hands and arms that signal something, or maybe it’s her striking resemblance to her mom, Lisa Bonet, who exudes the mystical energy of a shaman or healer. Maybe her dad is the defining factor. After all, Lenny Kravitz has been synonymous with the concept of “cool” since he broke big in the nineties. The idea of having her own fame felt good at one point, Kravitz admits. She wanted to taste what it was like to be known as more than just someone’s daughter or partner or friend. But it wasn’t long before, as she says, “I got a lot of anxiety around ‘Do I feel confident enough to go outside?’" With Blink Twice coming into view, however, Kravitz is confronting a different type of vulnerability. “I feel like my brain is being exposed to the world,” she says. It’s liberating and terrifying at the same time. “I felt like I should just be quiet and let people experience the movie,” she says. “I was hesitant to make it about me.” [View in Browser]( [Esquire]( [SHOP]( EXCLUSIVE [SUBSCRIBE]( [Inside Zoë Kravitz's (Shocking! Twisted! Brilliant!) Mind]( [Inside Zoë Kravitz's (Shocking! Twisted! Brilliant!) Mind]( You have an idea in your head of who Zoë Kravitz is. Edgy. Boho. Hippie. Cool. She probably says “Perú” with an accent. Maybe it’s the tiny tattoos that curl around her hands and arms that signal something, or maybe it’s her striking resemblance to her mom, Lisa Bonet, who exudes the mystical energy of a shaman or healer. Maybe her dad is the defining factor. After all, Lenny Kravitz has been synonymous with the concept of “cool” since he broke big in the nineties. The idea of having her own fame felt good at one point, Kravitz admits. 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