By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices
Zoe Kravitz -- the daughter of former 'Cosby Show' actress Lisa Bonet and Grammy Award winning rocker Lenny Kravitz -- is all grown up now.
And she's making movies, becoming gossip fodder and even trying to step out of her beloved famous parents' foreshadows.
"It's an easy diss when people don't want to like me and want to say that I'm a brat," the 18-year-old beauty said in the new issue of Trace magazine. "You have people who only want to be your friend because of that, or you have those who say, 'Oh, Zoe thinks she is so cool cause her dad is...'"
And though her famous daddy is considered to be music industry royalty, she's no rocker chick. She's following in the acting footsteps of her mom and late grandmother Roxie Roker (of 'The Jeffersons' fame).
Kravitz has a bit part in the recently released romantic comedy 'No Reservations,' which stars Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta Jones, Aaron Eckhart and in-demand newcomer Abigail Breslin.
Her next film project is opposite Oscar winner Jodie Foster in 'The Brave One,' due in theaters next month. "Every time we did a take I would check if it was okay," she said of the film, which is a crime drama about a woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge. "[Jodie] would tell me to let go and just do it. She taught me to be comfortable on set."
Although they are roles of the smaller kind, Kravitz looks at it as a positive. "It's not about the size of the roles, it's about finding things that challenge and intrigue you. If these small roles will allow me to do that then I'm grateful."
Grateful is an adjective not typically associated with budding Hollywood starlets. But gossip and innuendo are commonplace.
When photos of Kravitz drinking a 40-ounce bottle of beer surfaced on the internet, many wanted to believe that the young ingénue was going the way of rehab-mocking, tabloid mainstays Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Not so.
"I was 17 in those pictures, and I'm sorry but find me a 17-year-old who has not had some beer?," she rationed.
"I'm together. I'm not an alcoholic, I go to school, I'm not a crazy kid, and I don't do hard drugs. My dad wasn't mad, but he was like 'you can't put your shit out like that.'"
College life, which she's due to begin in just a matter of days, should offer Kravitz a more diverse perspective on real-life matters.
She was recently accepted to State University of New York College at Purchase's Performing Arts program, which she is scheduled to begin this fall.
"Growing up around actors as a kid you want to imitate what the adults are doing," she said of being bit by the acting bug. "But as I got older it was clear to me that I loved it and could do it for a living."
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By: DetroitD69 on 8/10/2007 12:53AM
I READ SOMEWHERE THAT SHE SAID THAT BECAUSE HER "PARENT'S" ARE "HALF"-WHITE(JEWISH).....THAT SHE WASN'T BLACK!!!!
....F#CK THAT BYTCH!!!!
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By: james on 8/10/2007 7:17AM
i think shes a good and well person to have a normal life
for her goals and i wish her all the best
and make god bless her and her career
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By: dutchdiamond on 8/10/2007 8:37AM
She is so beautiful,she looks just like her parents.I can't believe she is 18 now,when I saw the picture i was like oh my God,SShe is so beautiful,I pray and hope that God blesses her through whatever path she decides to take!!!!!GOD BLESS you sweetie!!!!!!!
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By: Thelma on 8/10/2007 8:43AM
She is beautiful and I wish her well. Don't put her down before she rises
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By: Dlab on 8/10/2007 8:48AM
Dang....that is not a flattering picture of Lisa Bonet. She has aged!!!!!! Haven't we all?????
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By: Phyllis on 8/10/2007 9:06AM
#1 people dies so people in this country could have the right to say what we want to say. Just because they say something it done not make it true, get over it. She seen to have her head on right, I wish her the best!!!!!
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By: C. Baptiste-Williams on 8/10/2007 9:09AM
How ignorant is it to judge someone by a rumor or something you "read". Unless you heard it from her mouth I would take it as a grain of salt.
For that fact every headline on the Enquirer or Star magazine would be considered factual.
And why do our people hate it when other people claim all of their heritage? Tiger Woods went through the same thing. We should try to be just good people and focus on our race second.
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By: Dia on 8/10/2007 9:29AM
DetroitD69 come on now when was last time you had seen either of her parents celebrate let alone acknowledge their african american roots so she learned from what she was taught....possibly. Don't shoot the messenger and she is a young lady learning her way in life cut lil momma a break and stop being so degrading.
Want to teach somebody about themselves set an example in yourself.
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By: WHITE SEAL on 8/10/2007 9:32AM
SO "MOUTH" , Where did you read it? Dont say, if you cant prove it.
Umm, by the way...."She is Black" and has a jewish/white heritage. Black "comes in all shades". She is very beautiful, and maybe you have a jealousy issue??? Or just not proud of "your shade of Black".
Your a Hipocrite and Racist. Take a "long look at yourself in a mirror"..Your not angry about "what" this young women is (Black, white, Jewish or pink), your mouthy cause she was "born into money", and is probably very wealthy besides very pretty.
Get some pride in yourself before you "speak". No one hands you "Pride", thats your job to get that.
Oh, by the way...I am a middle class White women, with a Cherokee & Irish Heritage. We live "paycheck to paycheck"...but at least I got pride !
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By: maggie on 8/10/2007 9:35AM
Lisa has not aged gracefully at all, on the contrary, Lenny sure is hell has aged well! He looks great!
The daughter looks like a hippie through back.
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