Zoë Kravitz admits to stealing from Claire’s when she was a teenager

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Zoë Kravitz, whose latest movie follows a man unwittingly caught up in a robbery, has detailed her own run-in with the law.

The Hollywood blockbuster Caught Stealing, directed by Darren Aronfsky (The Whale, Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream), follows Hank Thompson (Austin), a high-school baseball phenomenon who screwed up his chance to make it big – with devastating consequences.

A decade on he’s seemingly satisfied – working at a dive bar in New York and dating paramedic Yvonne (Zoë) – but when his punk neighbour Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat Bud for a few days, Hank finds himself being dragged into the criminal underworld of 1998 New York City and targeted by violent gangsters including Russians, Puerto Ricans and Hebrews …but has no clue why.

Cue plenty of jaw-dropping twists and turns, with the gritty crime caper set to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

Although Hank is completely unaware of the apparent robbery he’s been caught up in, have Austin or Zoë ever been caught red-handed stealing things in a sticky situation too?

‘Just hearts and kisses,’ Austin quipped.

Zoë Kravitz once tried to swipe a pair of earrings from Claire’s (Picture: Nicky J Sims/ Getty Images) She stars in the new movie Caught Stealing alongside Austin Butler (Picture: Sony Pictures) Austin stars as former star baseball player Hank, who gets wrapped up in New York City’s underworld in Caught Stealing (Picture: Sony Pictures)

However, Zoë detailed how she once narrowly avoided the heavy hand of the law.

‘Ok the one thing…I stole earrings from Claire’s when I was a kid but the security guard came up to me and asked what was in my pocket. It’s not great- but it’s all I got!,’ she told Metro.

Although the adage of ‘don’t work with children and animals’ came to mind when seeing the fundamental role the cat played in the story (Bud is quite literally the catalyst for the misfortunes that strike Hank), the stars of the film joke that their furry co-star made sure he was the centre of attention rather than failing to carry out his job.

‘I wasn’t allowed to look him in the eyes- it was in his contract,’ Austin jokedabout the once street-cat Tonic.

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‘He did his four years of drama school, but he always knew his lines and when he showed up, he would show up with a flair.’

Despite him poking fun at Tonic, the pair actually developed a close bond, with Austin so concerned about his welfare he would make sure to give him treats after tense scenes to make sure the cat knew ‘they were friends’.

Although Zoe quipped the feline was a ‘diva’, she went on to clarify: ‘But he was actually great – it wasn’t as hard as we thought to work with him.’ 

After Austin famously worked so hard to mimic Elvis Presley’s voice in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 Elvis biopic (and then required the assistance of a dialect coach to get rid of it), he embraced the prep Darren asked him to take on for this project too.