News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. August 26, 2024: Caribbean roots star Naomi Sarah Ackie lit up the screen this weekend as Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice opened in fourth place with $7.3 million.
Ackie, 32, the daughter of second-generation immigrants from Grenada, stars opposite Kravitz’s real-life fiance Channing Tatum, who plays tech billionaire Slater King. He invites Ackie, who plays cocktail waitress and aspiring nail artist Frida, to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. Wild nights mix into sun-soaked days and a good time is had by all. stars cocktail waitress and aspiring nail artist Frida, who heads to the island along with friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) and strangers Sarah (Adria Arjona), Camilla (Liz Caribel) and Heather (Trew Mullen). Their host, Slater, is fresh off an apology tour for some undisclosed behavior and claims to be a changed man.
When guests arrive, their phones are collected, they’re given linen dresses and bathing suits, and then the booze, drugs, and delicious treats come out. What could go wrong? As it turns out, a lot. Jesse disappears, the maid (María Elena Olivares) keeps repeating cryptic phrases (“the red rabbit”?). Manipulations and abuses surface. Soon Frida, like Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris in Get Out, goes from happy to hardened – and joins forces with the other women to plot bloody revenge.
Blink Twice reportedly cost a modest $20 million to produce before marketing and received a B-CinemaScore from audiences. The film is from MGM and Amazon, with Warner Bros. handling overseas.
London-born Ackie is known for her television roles as Bonnie in The End of the F***ing World (2019) and Master of None (2021) and for her role as Jannah in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In 2022, she portrayed American singer Whitney Houston in the biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
Her father was an employee of Transport for London and her mother worked for the National Health Service. She is one of three children and has an older brother and sister. She went to Walthamstow School for Girls.
Her first role was at age 11, playing the angel Gabriel in a school nativity play. She studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and graduated in 2012.’
Blink Twice was shot in Yucatan, Mexico. stars cocktail waitress and aspiring nail artist Frida, who heads to the island along with friend Jess (Alia Shawkat) and strangers Sarah (Adria Arjona), Camilla (Liz Caribel) and Heather (Trew Mullen). Their host, Slater, is fresh off an apology tour for some undisclosed behavior and claims he’s a changed man. When guests arrive, their phones are collected, they’re given linen dresses and bathing suits, and then the booze, drugs, and delicious treats come out. What could go wrong?
As it turns out, a lot. Jesse disappears, the maid (María Elena Olivares) keeps repeating cryptic phrases (“the red rabbit”?). Manipulations and abuses surface. Soon Frida, like Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris in Get Out, goes from happy to hardened – and joins forces with the other women to plot bloody revenge.
Ackie recently shared a funny story in a candid interview with PEOPLE about her experience with rock musician Lenny Kravitz, the father of Zoe Kravitz, whose mother also has Caribbean roots. Ackie shared that during the making of Blink Twice, while going through her filming activities, she walked out of her bedroom and found herself face to face with Lenny Kravitz right outside.
Since they had never met before, Lenny Kravitz, known for his hit songs like “Are You Gonna Go My Way?”, introduced himself in a friendly manner. However, so shocked by how famous he was that she automatically closed the door.
“I had never met him before. I opened the bedroom door and Leni was there. He said: ‘Hello, you must be Naomi. I’m Lenny.’ I was like — I closed the door.” However, after gathering herself for a second, Ackie reopened the door to greet Kravitz properly. “I took a moment to calm down and then I said, ‘Okay, now I’m ready,'” she recalls.
For a glimpse of Ackie in the blink twice watch the clip here: Watch now.
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