Before our eyes,Bonet transformedfrom a quirky teen dressed in offbeat fashions into a serious and confident actor.
In 1987, Bonet tied the knot with a struggling musician who went by the name of Romeo Blue.
I pointed to Lisa Bonet and calmly said, ‘I’m going to marry that girl.'"
Kravitz’s friend just laughed at him.
But he was smitten with the TV star.
He wrote, “She had a come-hither magnetism that drove boys and men mad.”
How did an unknown musician meet one of the world’s biggest stars?
Lenny Kravitz managed to score a backstage pass for a New Edition concert.
Afterward, Lisa Bonet just happened to step into the private elevator with him.
“My heart started racing.
I didn’t know what to say, but I had to say something.
I knew this chance meeting was my only opportunity.
I couldn’t blow it,” he wrote in"Let Love Rule."
But I said it."
Fortunately, Bonet smiled at the musician and complimented his hair in return.
Later, in the dressing room, Kravitz worked up the courage to approach her again.
This encounter went much better.
He wrote in his memoir: “We vibed immediately.
Without a lot being said, there was magnetism.
I’d never had an encounter like it before.
We were from the same tribe.”
Part of that is due to the shared parenting of their daughter, actorZoe Kravitz.
But a larger reason seems to simply be that their connection has always run deep.
“She was like a female version of me,” Kravitz said in a 1995 interview inRolling Stone.
“We were complete mirror images of each other.
It was unbelievable.”
It’s interesting because that’s how the relationship started."
It’s beautiful, and it just shows you what can be done."
