Despite her extensive experience working on movie and TV sets, Zoë Kravitz wasn’t prepared to say “Action!” right away when directing “Blink Twice.”

“It was crazy. I think I started saying, ‘Let’s go!’ because ‘Action!’ gave me anxiety,” Zoë Kravitz told me at the Los Angeles premiere of her directorial debut. “It was ‘Let’s go! and ‘Here we go!’”

“Blink Twice” tells the story of two friends (Naomi Ackie and Alia Shawkat) who are invited by a tech mogul (Channing Tatum) to join him and a group of friends (Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Haley Joel Osment and Levon Hawke) on his private island. Things go awry after days of drinking and drugging.