“Ma’am, Please Put the Joint Out”: Iggy Pop and Zoë Kravitz Join Us for a Champagne Shower

FRIDAY 12:17 PM MAY 16, 2025 LONDON

Last Thursday, Dom Pérignon boarded the Eurostar and brought enough champagne to fill the Thames as the French maison debuted their latest campaign, Creation is an Eternal Journey. Taking over London’s Tate Modern, the evening set the stage for a dinner turned raucous party where campaign stars Iggy Pop, Tilda Swinton, Zoë Kravitz, and Anderson .Paak clinked glasses of Dom Pérignon Vintage 2008 – Plénitude 2, ahead of its global release. Looking like a bird of paradise, Swinton took the spotlight for a reading of a haunting original poem before .Paak and Jameela Elfaki took the reigns, turning the museum into an art-fueled rave that lasted into the wee hours. The next morning, we eased the hangover by catching up with Kravitz and Pop about creative kinks and champagne showers. Mimosas, anyone?

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MITCHELL NUGENT: Well, it’s really lovely to meet you. Where are you traveling from?

IGGY POP: Miami.

MITCHELL NUGENT: You brought the warm weather with you to London. Was there anyone last night you were excited to see?

IGGY POP: Tilda.

NUGENT: She looked amazing in that blue dress and her hair. Did you have a rose and thorn of the evening?

POP: Tilda, and one drunk guy.

NUGENT: Do you have a creative kink or any specific rituals that make you feel energized creatively?

POP: My digestion.

NUGENT: [Laughs] Good digestion is key. Is there a moment in your career where you really felt validated creatively?

POP: 1969. Although it was a year for others, it was a moment for me.

NUGENT: The Dom Pérignon campaign is inspired by the idea of the beginnings and endings of eras. Which era in your life are you in now?

POP: I’m one year into my 12th cycle. Life goes in seven-year cycles.

NUGENT: Is there a specific aspect of the collaboration that you really liked working on?

POP: Drinking the product.

NUGENT: When you’re starting a new project, how do you get into the zone? Do you have routines for yourself?

POP: Get rid of other people.

NUGENT: That’s a good one. Do you give yourself pep talks?

POP: Oh, yes.

NUGENT: Anything you say in particular to yourself?

POP: Well, I say, “Come on Jim, you can do this.”

NUGENT: If you didn’t have your current career as a musician, what would you be doing instead?

POP: President of the United States. 

NUGENT: There we go. If you could celebrate anyone right now, past or present, with a glass of Dom, who would you toast to?

POP: My friend Josh Ami is having a birthday tomorrow. We wrote a song together that celebrates champagne on ice.

NUGENT: “La Piscine”! 

POP: He loved singing those lines.

NUGENT: Now, let’s do our rapid Andy Warhol questionnaire. Do you dream?

POP: Yes.

NUGENT: Do you have any superstitions?

POP: All of them.

NUGENT: Showers or baths?

POP: Showers. Baths when I’m desperate.

NUGENT: What was your first job?

POP: Record store stock boy.

NUGENT: When do you get nervous?

POP: Talking to strangers.

NUGENT: Why can’t it just be magic all the time?

POP: It just can’t. I don’t know why.

NUGENT: How were you discovered?

POP: By Danny Fields.

NUGENT:  What’s one habit you’ll never give up?

POP: Love.

NUGENT: Is there anything you regret not doing? 

POP: More love.

NUGENT:  What do you love about London?

POP: It’s old and dead and new and lively at the same time.

NUGENT: Precisely. Have you ever been kicked out of a hotel?

POP: Yes. It was a golf hotel.

NUGENT: What are you most proud of?

POP: My songs.

NUGENT: Do you get eight hours of sleep a night?

POP: I try.

NUGENT: Lastly, what’s in your future?

POP: More gigs.

NUGENT: And let’s toast to that. 

NUGENT: Where are you traveling from?

ZOË KRAVITZ: I came from New York.

NUGENT: Fab. Was there anyone that you were excited to see last night?

KRAVITZ: Tilda Swinton.

NUGENT: That blue dress was everything.

KRAVITZ: Everything about her! She walked into the room and I just crumbled, and I followed her around with my eyes for a long time. And then I had the courage to go say hi, and she’s just a magnificent creature.

NUGENT: Unbelievable.

KRAVITZ: Also, the poem that she read earlier in the night, I want to get that recorded and I want that to be my alarm in the morning.

NUGENT: [Laughs] That’s going to be my lower back tattoo, that poem.

KRAVITZ: Yes.

NUGENT: What was your rose and thorn of the night?

KRAVITZ: I don’t know if I had a thorn. It was a pretty fun night. I think Tilda Swinton is my rose, just because it’s Tilda and I got to talk to her, and then also when Anderson .Paak was DJing and the horn player came out. That was also a pretty magical moment.

NUGENT: I thought the horn blower was just soundtrack, and then I turned around and saw someone actually playing and I was gooped! 

KRAVITZ: It was such an amazing surprise, right?

NUGENT: So fab.

NUGENT: Do you have any creative kinks that are specific or zany to you that make you feel energized creatively?

KRAVITZ: That’s a good question. I forget to eat when I’m really in the zone, actually. I don’t know. Maybe coffee and maybe a drink. 

NUGENT: Champagne?

KRAVITZ: A glass of champagne.

NUGENT: For sure. What era are you in in your life right now?

KRAVITZ: I don’t know what era I’m in. I’m definitely in an interesting era. I think for my whole life I’ll probably continue to make mistakes, but I’m trying to make new mistakes and not old mistakes now.

NUGENT: That’s what life is about.

KRAVITZ: Exactly.

NUGENT: What was your favorite part of the collaboration? 

KRAVITZ: I really enjoyed the conversation. I think the interview, sometimes you think like, “Okay, I’m going to sit down and you’re going to ask me some questions,” and it was such an engaging conversation, such an interesting conversation. I just loved the approach and the abstractness, because creativity is so abstract, and I love that they allowed it to be this kind of abstract, mysterious conversation around something that we don’t necessarily understand but want to celebrate.

NUGENT: If you didn’t have your current job now, what would you be doing?

KRAVITZ: What would I be doing? Nothing in film at all. Maybe photography, which is pretty close, or maybe interior design, or maybe a party planner.

NUGENT: Plan the next Dom Pérignon party.

KRAVITZ: Honestly, I throw iconic parties.

NUGENT: If you could toast anyone right now, past or present, with a glass, who would that be?

KRAVITZ: That is so hard. It’s like a tie between Bob Marley and John Lennon and Nina Simone.

NUGENT: Well, we have a bottle of Dom here. We have enough for all three.

KRAVITZ: Exactly, we can share.

NUGENT: Let’s do the Warhol questionnaire. Do you dream?

KRAVITZ: Yes.

NUGENT: Do you have any superstitions?

KRAVITZ: No.

NUGENT: Showers or baths?

KRAVITZ: Showers.

NUGENT: What was your first job?

KRAVITZ: Acting.

NUGENT: When do you get nervous?

KRAVITZ: All the time. Anytime I have to do anything in front of other people.

NUGENT: Why can’t it just be magic all the time?

KRAVITZ: Right? That’s my answer.

NUGENT: What’s one habit you’ll never give up?

KRAVITZ: Ooh, brutal honesty.

NUGENT: Is there anything you regret not doing?

KRAVITZ: No.

NUGENT: What do you love about London?

KRAVITZ: I love the parks and the pubs.

NUGENT: What are you most proud of?

KRAVITZ: I am proud of my friends. I think I have fantastic friends, and the film [Blink Twice] I directed.

NUGENT: Fab. Have you ever been kicked out of a hotel?

KRAVITZ: No. No, but I’ve been… “Please ma’am, put the joint out.”

NUGENT: Do you get eight hours of sleep a night?

KRAVITZ: Definitely not.

NUGENT: Okay. And what’s in your future?

KRAVITZ: Eight hours of sleep, hopefully.