[Magazine Fab] Zoë Kravitz does Ocean Drive

Wow Zoë Kravitz looks gorgeous in these photos. I mean how could she not coming from such a gorgeous family? Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz must be proud. Zoë discussed her music and acting careers with Ocean Magazine.

Frolicking in the Miami surf in a rare moment of downtime, Zoë Kravitz looks the spitting image of her mother, Lisa Bonet (who rose to fame in the ’80s on The Cosby Show). Black cornrows swing down to her midsection; a wisp of a black bikini shows off her enviably toned body. The child of Bonet and Miami fixture and rock icon Lenny Kravitz, Zoë is forging her own artistic path in each of her parents’ main fields: on-screen, where this month she reprises her role as Christina in Insurgent, the second installment of the young-adult franchise Divergent, and onstage, where she fronts the electro-glitch-pop trio Lolawolf. This past Art Basel, Kravitz’s band wowed an invite-only crowd at the rock ’n’ roll jeweler Chrome Hearts’ Miami pop-up shop party.
Given her bloodlines, it’s no surprise that Kravitz’s self-professed need to create is simply a part of her DNA. “It’s always what I’ve done, before I even had a real understanding of how the rest of the world saw my parents,” she says. “My dad was always really supportive. My mom always wanted to make sure that this is what I really wanted to do before being in the public eye myself. They knew that’s genuinely who I am—I don’t know what else I would do if I wasn’t creating.”

That need for self-expression has manifested itself in a personal style that’s been a hit with the fashion crowd—she even collaborated with Swarovski on a jewelry line—but acting is her primary focus. Kravitz made her big-screen debut while still in high school in the Catherine Zeta-Jones/Aaron Eckhart rom-com, No Reservations. Since then, her roles have been a bit more envelope-pushing: a teen prostitute in the Jodie Foster pic The Brave One, a recurring part on Showtime’s Californication, a mutant in X-Men: First Class, and the compelling Nakia in this year’s Sundance hit Dope. But it was her role as Christina, the protective friend to Shailene Woodley’s Tris in the young-adult sci-fi flick Divergent, that brought her wider acclaim; Kravitz reprises the role this month in the second installment. “[My character] Christina comes from the faction of Candor, which is all about honesty; I was really intrigued by that,” says Kravitz. “That’s why she’s kind of an open book—she’s feisty and she’s funny and she’s real—and those are the kind of people that I like to surround myself with, and I’m the same kind of person.”
However, those character traits are not without their downsides, says Kravitz, who admits that “sometimes you go too far, where you just put your foot in your mouth. I definitely struggle with that, so I identified with that part of her. I love the friendship between her and Tris. It’s so important to see females supporting each other, especially in films for younger people. My girlfriends have kept me sane over the years, so I think their friendship and their bond is really beautiful.”

Please check out the full interview here!