Zendaya SHOCKED Over This Tennis Icon’s ‘Challengers’ Premiere Surprise

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00:00 Shout out to Venus. She's somewhere here on the carpet too. We saw her Venus Williams. Yeah

00:03 She's in the building ladies and gentlemen Zendaya

00:08 First of all, how does it feel to have such an incredible reception right now?

00:16 You've been getting this all over the world at this point for this film girl. I feel incredibly honored and lucky

00:21 It's so sweet to see all of you here. So thank you so much for taking the time to be here

00:26 I've been seeing so much of you tell me that you grew up with me and then seeing pictures of you as

00:31 Little ones and I just want to say thank you for being on this journey with me

00:35 I really really appreciate you being here and they are so excited. It's been hours of them isn't a hair isn't a hair

00:41 I feel like I can just feel her presence

00:43 Tashi Duncan is such a beautiful

00:46 Complicated incredible woman. I'm curious to know what drew you to her originally and what ways if any you kind of see a bit

00:54 Of yourself in her. Oh, man. Oh, she approaches life a little bit differently than I do

00:59 But she no

01:00 I think what stood out to me is just that she was incredibly

01:02 complicated and complex and there was nothing one-dimensional about her and I think it was it felt like a

01:08 big challenge, you know, and how do I make sure that she's still human and fragile and

01:15 And we find her gooey Center if you will

01:20 And I and I just wanted to also take on the challenge of of tennis, too

01:24 I think it's such an incredible sport and the idea of like her being the best at it. I was like, oh man

01:29 Okay, I'm really in for something here. So

01:31 Also just the amazing people that I get to work with as well

01:35 The boys are so talented and so wonderful in the film and Luca as well. So

01:39 yeah, I mean the script was brilliant Justin is brilliant and

01:44 It was a no-brainer for me this love triangle is as intense as the tennis matches are

01:51 Working with Josh and Mike. What was the highlight for you? Um, just that they're wonderful wonderful people

01:57 They're just really wonderful people and it made it such a they made it such a wonderful place to go to work every day

02:03 I think we all care deeply about what we do

02:06 but sometimes it's important to laugh and like have joy and

02:11 And make fun and like have jokes and make sure that the work just doesn't feel too serious all the time

02:18 Who was the class clown? I think it was all three of us to be honest

02:21 It's just a based on any given moment to be true to be truthful

02:25 But we just had a lot of fun and and and I think when you create a space we feel safe and feel supported

02:31 By each other then you feel like you can do your best work

02:33 So and you mentioned being interested in the physicality and the actual tennis of it all talk to me about the training

02:40 What was it like because you all pulled off those tennis scenes so beautifully it was giving elite

02:45 Well, we have a great director. All right, shout out to Luca. Absolutely

02:49 No, I would say, you know, it's it's a combination of many things. I think we have we had great kind of like a tennis team

02:56 around us

02:58 Starting with Brad Gilbert and and and Eric. I don't know if Eric's here. But oh, there's Brad. Hey, hi Brad

03:06 But yeah, we just had a great team and support system around us we had incredible

03:10 Our tennis doubles who are obviously really good at it

03:15 And it was just about I think kind of getting in sync with them and for me

03:20 I tried to like approach it from a dance background because I'm never gonna be Serena

03:24 Okay, so I might as well give that dream up now

03:27 Just give it to gab shout out to Venus. She's somewhere here on the carpet - we saw her Venus Williams. Yeah

03:34 She's in the building. I'm out to find her

03:36 No, she's I mean she's amazing. Um, but you know, I knew I wasn't gonna be them, right?

03:42 So I realized that I had to approach it from a place physically that I understood and for me that was dance

03:48 So I tried to approach it from like, okay, I'm learning choreography. And how do I learn this this footwork or this physicality?

03:54 And I really enjoyed myself and a producer also. What was that? Like working behind the scenes also, which is so impressive

04:03 I think it's just a it's a way to be more creative and and to learn

04:07 I think from someone like Luca and and be able to be in a space where you can support your fellow actors and and hopefully

04:14 get the best work possible out of the out of the material when you kind of have like a

04:19 Real role or a seat at the table and I know we got to let you go

04:24 But just quickly you've been serving up court couture all season

04:28 Okay, this press run we've got Law Roach over here serving just as much just really quickly

04:34 What was the inspiration for tonight's like how much fun have you had with that my not-so-secret weapon over here?

04:39 No, we just we really enjoy I think we've played with theme dressing for many many years now

04:45 And I think it's just it's fun. I think when you have

04:47 Material with like rich references already. Why not pull from it and an explore an experiment through clothes

04:55 And so that's what we try to do. And sometimes the references are subtle. Sometimes they're sometimes pick people pick it up later

05:03 Sometimes it's very literal, but we have fun. Well, you are having fun. I hope you have the best time tonight

05:09 Congratulations on the film you were brilliant in it Zendaya everyone

05:13 *Outro Music*

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