Lenny Kravitz gorgeous at 47 discusses The Hunger Games, daughter, latest album

A mature rock-n-roll star set to appear in The Hunger Games with a physique like that thoughtfully cooking in the kitchen. Could Lenny Kravitz be the perfect man!?!

Kravitz is featured in the latest issue of Interview magazine and he chatted up the highly anticipated new film, his 23-year-old daughter Zoe, and his latest album Black and White America with singer and friend Raphael Saadiq.

On The Hunger Games and his role as flamboyant stylist Cinna:

‘He [Gary Ross] said “Hi, I’m making this movie called The Hunger Games. I think you’d be great. If you want it, you’ve got the part.” No audition. I was really flattered, but I had not read the book. So I downloaded it. I remember I started it late one night and I needed to go to bed—I was tired and had been recording all day and night—but I couldn’t stop reading because I was captured by the story. So I finished the book and called him back and said, “I’d love to do it.”.’

On his daughter Zoe:

‘It’s beautiful. She was in the latest X-Men movie last summer. She also did this really beautiful independent film, Yelling to the Sky, which went to the festivals. She’s in this band called Elevator Fight, and they’re making some really cool music. I went to a gig of hers in Brooklyn not that long ago. She just watched everything as a child. She was around a lot of great, creative people, being with me and her mother [Kravitz’s ex-wife, actress Lisa Bonet]. She just finished making her album. It’s just wonderful to see her doing her thing.’

On his latest album Black and White America:

‘We’ve moved forward, and there’s an African-American gentleman in office, but now the people who don’t agree with that or don’t like it are showing how they feel. As much as we’ve moved forward, we’re also being pulled back. I’ve always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I’d go to these record labels, and they’d say things like “Lenny Kravitz. That’s a weird name”. You know, I’m brown-skinned and I’ve got these dreadlocks and I’ve got this Jewish last name. Then I come in with this rock ’n’ roll-oriented music, and it’s not black enough . . . I’ve always had to deal with this black-white thing.’

Kravitz has upcoming tour dates this month in Australia. The ladies down under are lucky I’d say!