Zoë Kravitz Slams Hulu's Harry Styles Joke, High Fidelity
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Zoë Kravitz is calling out Hulu for a Harry Styles-related joke about her High Fidelity character.
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For context, Zoë and Harry have been romantically linked since August 2025, and last month, it was reported that they’d quietly gotten engaged.
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Neither Zoë nor Harry have publicly addressed the reports, though the Big Little Lies star has been spotted out and about rocking a huge diamond on her ring finger.
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And while the pair have remained very low-key about their relationship, Zoë surprised fans this week by publicly calling out Hulu for making a joke that referenced Harry to promote High Fidelity, which was abruptly canceled in 2020 after just one season despite its favorable reviews.
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At the time, Zoë — who also served as an executive producer and writer on the show — made it known that she wasn’t happy with Hulu’s decision to axe High Fidelity, writing in a since-deleted Instagram comment: “at least hulu has a ton of other shows starring women of color we can watch. oh wait.”
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A couple of years later, Zoë described the show’s cancellation as “a big mistake” during an interview with Elle magazine. “They didn’t realize what that show was and what it could do. The amount of letters, DMs, people on the street, and women that look like us — like, that love for the show, it meant something to people.”
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With this context in mind, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Zoë didn’t appear to be the biggest fan of Hulu’s recent Harry-related post.
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On April 27, Hulu’s official Instagram account reportedly shared a series of images of Zoë’s High Fidelity character, Robyn Brooks, and wrote, “Robyn Brooks definitely has Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally on her playlist” — a reference to Harry’s fourth studio album, which was released in March.
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Zoë purportedly commented on May 6, “this is tacky @hulu.”
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The Instagram post now appears to have been removed from the platform, though it is still available on Hulu’s X account.
Several social media users have since sided with Zoë, suggesting that it is indeed “tacky” to use her personal life to “capitalize” on the same show that they had no issue canceling years ago.
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“she should have been meaner bc don’t cancel my show and then fire off a cutesy post trying to capitalize on said show AND real life relationship,” one X post read, while another user agreed, “she is right. Justice for High Fidelity!”
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“The show was great and they canned it for no good reason. Now they're using her personal life to promote it years later? It's tacky,” someone else tweeted.
“I imagine it's annoying to see the company that cancelled your show after one season promoting it years later just for the sake of cheap social media [engagement] around your own personal life,” one Reddit user wrote.
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One more user added, “I don't care for Zoe individually, but this new streaming model of making good shows, dumping them in their catalogue with little to no promotion just to cancel it a month later must be frustrating as hell for everyone in the industry, and using the star's personal life to promote it half a decade too late just adds assault to injury, I'd be petty too.”
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