Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum were the definition of couple goals while promoting their film Blink Twice — just two months before calling it quits.
Kravitz, who directed the psychological thriller, called then-fiancé Tatum, the “love of [her] life” during the Los Angeles premiere of the movie in August.
“From producing to performing to pep talks to holding my head or my feet while I cried on the bathroom floor because I thought I f—d it all up, thank you for letting me be a complete OCD psychopath, control freak,” Kravitz, 35, said of the Magic Mike star, 44, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Thank you for your patience, making this film with you has been an awfully great adventure. Thank you for trusting me to ‘female direct’ you. It’s really very cool to get to make a movie but when you get to do it with the love of your life, it’s even cooler.”
Kravitz’s speech was just the tip of the iceberg for the couple, who got engaged in fall 2023 after meeting on the set of her directorial debut two years prior. (Prior to their relationship, Kravitz was married to Karl Glusman. Tatum, for his part, shares daughter Everly, 11, with ex-wife Jenna Dewan.)
Channing Tatum and Zoe Kravitz’s Relationship Timeline
The pair gushed about one another in nearly every interview in the months leading up to its release. (News broke on Tuesday, October 29, that Kravitz and Tatum called off their engagement. That same day, Deadline announced the now-exes would work together again in the upcoming action-comedy, Alpha Gang.)
Take a look back at Kravitz and Tatum’s most loved-up press tour quotes below:
It’s Like a ‘Marriage’
“To get to create something with someone that you love is probably one of the most gratifying things, other than having a kid with somebody, I think,” Tatum told People at the L.A. premiere in August. “You truly are creating something from nothing and it’s just like creating a marriage.”
Kravitz added: “I think going through something creative like this with anybody makes you closer and there’s so much trust there. We got to work together and go through hard things together and support each other, and it was beautiful.”
Trust Is Key
“I think there is so much trust there, and you’re able to go to places that maybe you couldn’t go with someone that you maybe don’t know as well,” Kravitz told Entertainment Tonight while walking the Blink Twice red carpet in August. “So it was a really beautiful experience to work together creatively.”
Friends to Collaborators
“It was really interesting, because we started as friends just working on a project that we both really believe in,” Tatum told Entertainment Tonight in August. “When things start in that creative place … you just respect each other’s point of view, you respect each other’s mind, each others’ experience in life.”
The Step Up actor explained, “I now don’t know what I would do creating without her. Everybody was like, ‘You sure you want to go create with your partner?’ But I actually suggest that to almost everyone now, ’cause you really get to know who that person is and what they are to you and who they are to you when you’re in the trenches.”
He added, “You go, ‘Alright, I need to have your perspective right now. Tell me tell me what to do, tell me how to do it. Tell me what I don’t know and what I’m not seeing.’”
Inside Their Love Language
“Creating is our, like, love language,” Tatum revealed during an August appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Like, we really just enjoy that. I didn’t have any fear going into making a movie with somebody that you’re — you know, is the love of your life.”
The actor, who plays tech mogul Slater King in the movie, confessed that the psychological thriller which was originally titled Pussy Island is “scary, man.” Tatum joked, “She’s scary,” referring to Kravitz.
Nerd Alert
Tatum gave fans insight into his relationship with Kravitz during an August appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “She’s such a nerd for movies,” he said of Big Little Lies alum. “She doesn’t do anything [else]. The first thing that she said when we started getting together was like, ‘I don’t do activities.’ I think I laughed. She’s like, ‘No, listen to me. I don’t hike. I don’t do any of that stuff.’”
He explained that on a day off, the pair “watch, like, three or four movies in a day. We just love it.”
Tatum then pivoted to their movie, gushing over Kravitz’s talent behind the camera. “I just am in awe of her process, because even the first script that I got that I read, I knew that it was wildly bold and taking some of the biggest swings that I’ve ever seen,” he said.
Big Screen Love
“He’s very handsome,” Kravitz said of Tatum while sitting down with CBS Sunday Morning’s Michelle Miller in August. “I directed him the same way I directed all my other actors. When we’re at work, we’re at work.
A Sleepy Kravitz
“This little sweet. She so tired bro. Every time I wondered if she’d break … She just kept going and going and going,” Tatum wrote via Instagram in September, applauding Kravitz for her work on the film. “Always on the dig for truth. She poured every single ounce of her into this film.”
He continued, “I’m so proud to stand ten toes down for her, this film and everyone in it. forever. Knowing what it took to make it. No one will ever know. Thank you for finding me and seeing me. I got you forever. Me and you back-to-back against it all. I’ll never blink. Let’s go.”
Give Him an Oscar!
Kravitz sang Tatum’s praises during a September appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I think so too,” Kravitz said when Drew Barrymore suggested he get an Academy Award for the project.
“I felt in my heart that he was a feminist,” Kravitz said of why she cast Tatum before knowing him. “I wanted to weaponize his charisma.”
