Zendaya has said that she believes it is “very odd” that she is always asked about kissing her male co-stars in interviews.
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The actor, who is currently promoting her latest film Challengers, appeared on the Jake’s Takes podcast when the issue of the “abnormal amount of attention” to her kissing scenes was raised by host Jake Hamilton.
“I have no idea. I don’t know if it’s because they want it to be, like, a viral thing, I don’t know. But I have noticed that, with me specifically,” Zendaya said.
“I feel like other actors don’t… if it was somebody else here, you probably wouldn’t [have] asked that question. But yeah, it is a part of my job and it is a completely normal part of the job despite, I think, maybe other people’s perception of our job. But yeah, it is odd.”
“Thank you for bringing that up, because I thought the same thing — THIS IS WEIRD!”
I think Zendaya is tired of talking about kissing her co-stars.
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— Jake Hamilton (@JakesTakes) April 21, 2024
“Thank you for bringing that up, because I thought the same thing,” she added. “I’m like, this is weird! This is weird!”
Challengers is the latest film from director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All), and centres on an intense love triangle between tennis coach Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) and rival racket-thrashers Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) and Art Donaldson (Mike Faist). It is out on April 26.
In a four-star review of Challengers, NME wrote: “The performances are exceptional, with off-the-scale chemistry between all three leads. Zendaya, in particular, is a force of nature, and you feel her angry frustration at her own career path (which was cut short by injury) in every scene. O’Connor and Faist are equally good, and if the film has a flaw, it’s only that it doesn’t explicitly dig deeper into their feelings for each other, leaving it as an underlying suggestion instead.”
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In other Zendaya news, she recently addressed the delay to season three of Euphoria, claiming that she also has no idea when or if it will start production.
It has suffered delays to filming and production as a result of last year’s acting and writing strikes, as well as creator Sam Levinson’s delay in completing the script, with HBO recently announcing it is still on hold.
“If it’s right for the characters and everything turns out the way it should, of course,” the actor told Variety. “But it’s beyond me.”
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