The 2014 role that “scared the shit” out of Zoë Kravitz: “I heard that so loud and clear”

Zoë Kravitz said preparing for her role in the 2014 film *The Road Within* frightened her because losing weight to portray a character with anorexia began to affect her health. Her account highlights the risks of extreme physical changes for a performance and how the experience made her reconsider the way she treated her body.

Kravitz told *Nylon* in 2015 that she fell to 90 pounds and developed shingles, which left her unable to sing. She said the loss of her voice made clear that her approach was harming something she loved. The independent road-trip drama also stars Dev Patel and Robert Sheehan, and follows young people with different health conditions travelling to Santa Cruz.