Challengers: Why Zendaya is so nervous for audiences to see her as Tashi

Press Junket

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00:00Nerves, no. I always am nervous.

00:03But, I wish I was joking.

00:05But I think she, you know, for me, I think it's just,

00:09A, it's, I think from like a personal perspective,

00:12it's like this is my first time kind of leading a film in this way.

00:16So that you kind of, I think I've felt that pressure,

00:20that fear, burden, or whatever from the beginning

00:23of just wanting to make something that I'm proud of

00:26and enjoy it and, you know, sometimes that can be very difficult.

00:32And secondly, just that, you know,

00:37these characters are incredibly complex and interesting

00:42and also it's hard to, like when people ask me what the movie is about,

00:46I can't, I can't, I can't give them an answer in under like an hour.

00:51You know what I mean?

00:52Because it's just, it's so complicated

00:54and these characters are just, it's impossible to sum it up

01:00or define it really because it's a comedy, but it's not.

01:03But it's a drama, but it's not.

01:04But it's a sports movie, but it's not.

01:06So it's like, it's undefinable in this really beautiful way.

01:10And so I feel like it's just something that people

01:12just have to like experience for themselves

01:14and they will enjoy, I think, judging the characters

01:17and arguing about it after and changing their mind

01:20and coming up with theories and ideas.

01:23And I think that's the fun thing because I'm still doing that.

01:26I think every day we have an interview and they answer a question,

01:28I'm like, yo, I didn't even think about that

01:30and now I have to go reprocess all over again.

01:33So, yeah, for those reasons.