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Zoë Kravtiz wasn't exactly jumping at the chance to star in Hulu's "High Fidelity" reboot.
"Oh no, please don't," she recalls about her first reaction to the pitch. "Genuinely, that was the first thing that went through my mind. It's funny because I had this whole thought about like, Should I
be lying about that? But I think it's okay. I think it's like, No, I'm wary of the reboot and I'm wary of the gender flip."
Fast forward to today, and Kravitz has been in the awards conversation for her starring role as Rob, a Los Angeles record store owner in the TV adaptation of "High Fidelity." It's a gender swap from the
2000 movie, in which John Cusack played an employee at a Chicago store.
Variety caught up with Kravitz from London, where she's been living since production of "The Batman" - she's playing Catwoman opposite Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader - was halted due to the
pandemic.
What do you like about playing Rob?
I watched this movie and read this book years ago, I always identified with the Rob character, but I romanticized him. And then, of course, looking back you're like, this guy's an asshole. He's a
misogynist asshole. Why would I think that was cool, and why did I think that was sexy, and why did I think that was interesting? To come back and play his character from
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a different point of view, it wasn't like, "Oh, I'm playing this really cool, sad, person who just can't get it together. And we love that about her." It was more, "I think I was this person at one point
in my life. I'd like to think that I'm past that now. It's these really uncomfortable growing pains when you have to figure out who you want to be.
How uncomfortable and messy did it get for you to figure out who you were?
Oh man, one of my best friends the other day started sending me all these old photos from 2005. It really sent me into this crazy spiral because I thought we looked really cool at the time, and looking at
these photos, I was just like, "Dude, what? What?" My friend said, "I think we were playing a game where we would get dressed in the dark with no mirror. And then anytime we caught our reflection anywhere,
we would take a shot." It just looked so messy.
And now you're 31 and married.
I'm married, and less bad choices - I would like to think. You know, life is an ongoing struggle, so of course, there's always work to be done. But there's that first step where it's like, I'm an adult. Oh
wait, I have so much more work to do.
Is there going to be a second season of "High Fidelity"?
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