She’s also driven, and knows exactly what she wants — to be at the top of her game at all times, regardless of which game she’s dealing with. “Challengers” fluidly jumps back and forth in time as it reveals how the past influences the present.
Zendaya, 27, shared a number of behind-the-scenes photos and videos from the new tennis drama to Instagram on April 23. At the end of the nine clips she shared, the actress featured a quick video of her costars Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist jokingly kissing a tennis racquet wearing Zendaya's wig from the movie — a tongue-in-cheek reference to a highlighted scene in the movie's trailer in which both men begin kissing Zendaya's character Tashi.
I don’t want to be a homewrecker,” Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) says in “Challengers.” A budding tennis star on her way to Stanford, Tashi isn’t addressing a married man but two boys — also aspiring pros — who are openly courting her at the same time.
Of the myriad reasons to characterize “Challengers” as a cinematic triumph, chief among them is the fact that, just a few short years ago, a film of its kind would
Zendaya shares Serena Williams’ reaction to her latest film. The actress revealed the tennis legend had an honest yet satisfactory response to Challengers, a fictional story with the sport at its center.
As Tashi Duncan, a tennis star whose career was clipped early by an injury, Zendaya, 27, embraced a role that goes from 18 to 30, a character for the first time close to her own age.
Challengers” is full of interesting choices: the pulsating music, the unconventional camera angles, the nonlinear style, Zendaya as the villain, etc., Even the through line — a steamy love triangle romance that doubles as a thrilling tennis drama — defies genre.
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Critics have seen the film and are praising the flick for serving up the sexy, and The Greatest Showman alum herself has become the latest celebrity to discuss the experience of watching her steamy on-screen moments alongside her parents,
Since it went into production, "Challengers" has been described as a movie about tennis and a threesome but there is no threesome and it's not really about tennis. It takes quite a while for the subject of the Luca Guadagnino ("Call Me by Your Name") drama to emerge,
Zendaya has been spending a lot of time on the red carpet recently, first promoting Dune:Part 2 alongside Timothée Chalamet and now attending Challengers premieres all over the world. For each event,
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