Zendaya wonders why her kissing scenes get numerous consideration when she’s simply doing her job.
Whereas selling her upcoming movie Challengers, by which she co-stars with Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the Euphoria star stated, “It’s very odd” that when she does a kissing scene, it seemingly will get numerous consideration.
“I don’t know. I don’t know if it’s as a result of they need it to be, like, a viral factor, I don’t know. However I’ve seen that, with me particularly,” Zendaya stated throughout an look on Jake’s Takes after the present’s host introduced on the “irregular” quantity of consideration these specific scenes generate. “I really feel like different actors don’t… if it was anyone else right here, you most likely wouldn’t [have] requested that query.”
She continued, “However yeah, it is part of my job, and it’s a fully regular a part of the job regardless of, I feel, possibly different folks’s notion of our job. However yeah, it’s odd.”
Zendaya was grateful that the present’s host introduced up the topic as a result of she had seen it earlier than pondering, “That is bizarre.”
Watch Zendaya’s full interview earlier than.
Challengers follows Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy who’s now a coach. Tashi is married to a tennis champion who’s on a shedding streak and shortly finds himself going through off in opposition to his former finest pal and Tashi’s ex-boyfriend.
Through the L.A. premiere of Challengers, Zendaya talked to Deadline about working with director Luca Guadagnino.
“Luca is good. I feel he has such a good looking understanding in regards to the human expertise and deeply understands characters on one other stage,” she informed us. “That was very obvious from the primary time I spoke with him about this movie and about these characters. He simply knew who these folks have been in a deep sense and understood them, their hopes, their needs, their goals, their wishes, their fears.”