Tennis “prodigy” Zendaya reveals private video diary in new Challengers trailer

To incite her followers, well-known actress Zendaya added a private video diary from the set of Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming tennis-related film Challengers to the movie’s new trailer, which landed on 21 February. The brand new trailer amassed over 2.5 million views on YouTube alone within the first two days of launching.

Take a look at it. Nevertheless, the above trailer would not comprise Zendaya’s private video diary. The actress solely shared it on her social media accounts. “CHALLENGERS trailer 2… + a lil one thing particular. In theaters APRIL twenty sixth,” Zendaya captioned the trailer and the diary discovered on the finish of it.

Within the video diary, Zendaya shares scenes exhibiting her:

Working towards and posing on the tennis court docket; Interacting together with her co-stars, particularly with Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor; Footage of the identical co-stars studying to hit tweeners. The diary ends with the phrases “to be continued.” Discover the diary on the finish of the trailer discovered within the embedded publish beneath.

We seemed into the feedback left by the individuals who watched the trailer and most of them cherished it and praised the director’s work.

Nevertheless, many mocked Zendaya’s boyfriend Tom Holland. “Spidey: Mr Stark, i do not really feel so good…” one YouTube consumer commented. “Tom holland replaying this over and again and again,” one other consumer wrote. In Challengers, Zendaya performs the position of Tashi Donaldson, “a former tennis prodigy turned coach who married to a champion on a dropping streak.

Her technique for her husband’s redemption takes a shocking flip when he should face off towards his former finest pal and Tashi’s former boyfriend.” Zendaya is a praised actress with 2 Primetime Emmys and is generally identified for portraying Rue Bennett within the TV collection Euphoria, MJ within the newest Spider-Man motion pictures, Anne Wheeler within the Oscar-nominated The Best Showman, and Dune.

Earlier than Challengers, nevertheless, Zendaya will seem in Dune: Half Two, which is about to be launched on March 1, 2024. On Thursday, Zendaya attended the film’s premiere in Seoul.

Let’s not overlook about her apparition on the World Premiere of Dune: Half Two.

Challengers is a “fizzy” film

Challengers’ movie director Luca Guadagnino expressed his opinion on the film that is set to hit the theaters on 26 April.

“I don’t wish to suppose a lot about Challengers,” Guadagnino admitted as we beforehand reported on his IndieWire interview. “I believe these three characters in that film are fantastically complicated and actually f*cked-up those that I really like very a lot.

And a sports activities movie, why not? It’s hyperkinetic, and I do movies, so it’s nice,” stated the director. The director, talking to IndieWire, additionally described ‘Challengers’ as “a reasonably fizzy, s*xy film concerning the world of tennis”.

This is the preliminary trailer for the film, which ought to have launched in September 2023 however received postponed because of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Learn extra: Zendaya’s sensual tennis film Challengers suffers main delay. It is value noting that Luca Guadagnino is a specialist in making romance motion pictures, particularly ones exploring same-gender relationships.

As proof, Guadagnino’s film Name Me by Your Identify earned an Oscar nomination in 2017. “In Nineteen Eighties Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old pupil and the older man employed as his father’s analysis assistant,” the film’s IMDB description reads.

Zendaya identified what Guadagnino’s best energy is on the subject of filmmaking. “What Luca’s actually good at is discovering sensuality and need. There’s a lot in simply glances. The stress builds. Not having the discharge is an effective factor typically,” she advised Empire as we beforehand quoted her.

US Open winner Coco Gauff’s opinion on Challengers

The 2023 US Open winner Coco Gauff is worked up about Zendaya’s upcoming Challengers film. Gauff commented on the final two Instagram posts shared by Zendaya with reference to Challengers.

“Cannot wait,” Gauff wrote on 2 January. “So excited,” Gauff reacted to the brand new trailer. In addition to Gauff, Serena additionally reacted when the film was introduced. “So excited for this,” Williams commented. It stays to be seen how good the film might be and whether or not it’ll earn an Oscar nomination, or higher, a win, as King Richard did.