Zoë Kravitz Praises Gena Rowlands in New Video with Channing Tatum: 'One of the Best' Performances 'I've Ever Seen'

Rowlands died Wednesday, Aug. 14, at age 94

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum are heaping praise upon Gena Rowlands.

The engaged Blink Twice director, 35, and actor, 44, star in a new "Closet Picks" video for The Criterion Collection, published Wednesday, Aug. 15, where they flirt and bond over some of their favorite films — including ones starring Rowlands. The video was shot before Rowlands died on Wednesday at age 94.

"Gena Rowlands' performance in this is one of the best things I've ever seen," Kravitz said of 1974's A Woman Under the Influence, which was written and directed by Rowlands' first husband John Cassavetes, who died in 1989 at age 59.

"I love Cassavetes — we love Cassavetes," she added, to which Tatum agreed before they went on about "how incredible the ending" of the movie is.

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Other films they discussed included The Killing (1956), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Moonstruck(1987), Lord of the Flies(1990) and The Fisher King(1991).

Of 1991's Thelma & Louise, Kravitz called it "a perfect movie," adding, "I cry every single time. I love [Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis] so, so much." (Davis has a role in Blink Twice.)

"And a third. Little Braddy Pitty," Tatum said, to which Kravitz replied, "Oh well, yeah, duh."

While talking about the 1988 thriller The Vanishing, Tatum told his fiancée, "Every time you go into a gas station and get anything, I just stare at the door. Like, I just try to see you."

"I don't like how short you are, 'cause I can't see you when you go behind the shelves," the actor joked. " 'Cause I'm just like, 'Is she gonna come back out from behind the shelves?' "

Meanwhile, Blink Twice, which also stars Naomi Ackie, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Alia Shawkat and more, was formerly called Pussy Island, but Kravitz changed the name ahead of the release.

The thriller stars Ackie, 31, as a cocktail waitress named Frida who “becomes infatuated” with Tatum’s Slater King, per a synopsis. Frida “travels with him to his private island, where things begin to go wrong."

While speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the movie's Los Angeles premiere on Aug. 8, Tatum insisted starring in his fiancée's directorial debut was a great experience.

"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," he said of what the "best part" about shooting a movie with his other half was.

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"It's one of those ... you truly are creating something from nothing and it's just like creating a marriage or creating something where you're like, everything that we are is going into this thing and you want to make it with people that you love," Tatum added.

Kravitz also had nothing but praise for her fiancé, telling PEOPLE of how filming the movie made their partnership stronger, "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," the Big Little Lies star added.

Blink Twice is in theaters Aug. 23.

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