She’s the Man was one of Naomi Ackie’s favorite movies growing up. The 2006 cult classic twist on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night starred Amanda Bynes as a cross-dressing soccer prodigy and Channing Tatum as the clueless, heartthrob team captain. Ackie, who was 13 when the film premiered, recalls re-watching it over and over again with her best friend, committing its cheesy one-liners to memory. Eighteen years later, Ackie, now 31, stars alongside Tatum in Zoë Kravitz’s highly anticipated directorial debut, Blink Twice.
She can’t quite believe it herself.
