ZOE KRAVITZ: All Grown Up

By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices

Zoe Kravitz has two notable movie roles, college plans and a brazen approach to internet gossip. 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."

Zoe Kravitz is the only child that came from the short marriage of actress Lisa Bonet and rock musician Lenny Kravitz. 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."