Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz are now engaged and releasing Blink Twice, the movie she directed and he stars in — but it turns out the two had never met before Kravitz sent Tatum the script, which she also co-wrote.

“It was pretty crazy, I didn’t really know Zoë before she sent me the script. I never had met her before — I got a text from Riley Keough, she’s like, ‘Hey, my friend Zoë wants to send you a script.’ I was like, ‘Great, I love Zoë as an actress, I’d love to act with her.’ I didn’t know she wanted to make this thing,” Tatum told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Thursday.

She sent over the script — under the movie’s original title Pussy Island — “and I was like, ‘Ok, Zoë Kravitz is sending me something called Pussy Island, I...