Zendaya is getting candid about all the chatter surrounding all her kissing scenes. The Emmy-winning actress chatted with Jake Hamilton, the creator behind YouTube account 'Jake's Takes,' while promoting 'Challengers' with her co-stars, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor. Hamilton pointed out to Zendaya that when she does a kissing scene, it seems to get an "abnormal" amount of attention.
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00:00Do you feel like, as a society, people have forgotten that an actor kissing another actor
00:04is literally a part of your job? Zendaya is getting candid about all the chatter
00:09surrounding her kissing scenes. The Emmy-winning actress chatted with Jake's Takes Jake Hamilton
00:14while promoting Challengers with her co-stars Mike Feist and Josh O'Connor. Hamilton pointed
00:18out to Zendaya that when she does a kissing scene, it seems to get an abnormal amount of attention.
00:25He went on to ask if he thinks people have forgotten that it's part of an actor's job
00:28or if they're simply using it as a way to get her to talk about kissing.
00:44She continued,
00:45But yeah, it's a part of my job. And it's a completely normal part of the job, despite,
00:49I think, maybe other people's perception of our job. But yeah, it's odd.
00:53Thank you for bringing that up because I thought the same thing. I'm like, this is weird.
00:56Challengers follows Tashi, a tennis player-turned-coach,
00:59who turns her husband, Art, into a Grand Slam champion. The film hits theaters April 29.
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