Zoë Kravitz shades her co-star’s past roles; not once but twice

Zoë Kravitz threw shade at Austin Butler’s ‘Carrie Diaries’ and Robert Pattinson’s ‘Twilight’ in candid moments.

Zoë Kravitz knows how to make an interview delightfully awkward. During a Vanity Fair ‘Lie Detector’ segment, she inadvertently threw major shade at her Caught Stealing co-star, Austin Butler, without even realising he starred in the very show she was dissing. Kravitz was asked to choose between The Carrie Diaries (a prequel to Sex and the City) and its sequel And Just Like That…, and bluntly replied “neither.” Butler, visibly amused, theatrically tossed aside photos of himself from the series, prompting Kravitz to awkwardly apologise once the realisation hit. She acknowledged the slip-up, admitting that Butler’s participation went “right past her.”

But her roasting didn’t stop there. She also confessed that some plotlines from And Just Like That… kept her up at night, calling aspects of the sequel “baffling”, like an episode centred around a broken window, and joking that Butler “shouldn’t anymore” still like his own character.

This isn’t the first time Kravitz has teased co-stars about their past franchises. Years earlier, while promoting The Batman, she casually told Robert Pattinson that Twilight wasn’t really her thing. Pattinson quipped back: “It’s not even cool to be a hater anymore. That’s so 2010.” Kravitz clarified, saying she didn’t hate it, she just “didn’t see or participate in it.” Eventually she admitted she watched the first Twilight film because her best friend made her go, though it left no lasting impression.

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Online, fans were quick to note the delicious irony. One Redditor quipped, “Just because she was in Divergent doesn’t mean she has to be Allegiant,” though in this case, it’s more like “Just because you’re acting with them doesn’t mean you loved their past!”

These off-the-cuff jabs, though accidental, add to Kravitz’s cool, candid reputation, and remind everyone that even A-listers can’t always keep tabs on each other’s career history.