Channing Tatum has a fellow actor to thank for setting him up with Zoë Kravitz.
The superstar couple confirmed their relationship after using by means of the streets of New York Metropolis collectively in 2021, and whereas they’ve since grow to be engaged, Tatum says none of it could’ve occurred if it weren’t for Elvis Presley’s granddaughter.
“I remember Riley Keough texted me,” Tatum instructed E! Information correspondent Will Marfuggi on Wednesday. “She was like, ‘Hey, I have a friend that wants to send you something. Do you know Zoë Kravitz? I’m going to give you her number.’”
“The very first time we met, it was after I read this thing that she sent me called ‘Pussy Island,’” he later defined. “I was like, ‘I guess I’m definitely reading this.’”
Tatum has since grow to be a treasured member of his fiancée’s household and was lately praised by her rock star father, Lenny Kravitz, as a “very soulful human being.”
Whereas Zoë will tie the knot for the primary time, Tatum was beforehand married to dancer and actor Jenna Dewan. The 2 introduced their separation on social media in 2018 and are nonetheless finalizing facets of their divorce.
Whereas Tatum and Kravitz have been first linked in 2021, that they had circled one another for years.
“We both were going out for a movie that I ended up doing called ‘A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,’” Tatum mentioned Wednesday. “Then she was in Jodie Foster’s [2007 movie ‘The Brave One’]. That’s the first time I ever saw her, and that was right around the same time.”
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Tatum added that his fiancée is “one of the cooler people” he’s ever watched on display and admitted to “tracking” her profession earlier than they began courting.
The “Pussy Island” script Kravitz despatched Tatum finally turned her movie “Blink Twice,” a thriller she cowrote and directed that stars her now-husband-to-be.
The movie follows a tech billionaire (Tatum) who invitations a younger cocktail waitress (Naomi Ackie) on an expensive trip to his non-public island when a sinister fact is revealed.
“She really doesn’t do anything but watch movies,” he instructed Esquire in a characteristic on Kravitz revealed Wednesday. “She’s like, ‘I don’t do activities. I don’t go hiking. I just love movies.’”
