Challengers: (Actors) Ending explained

Press Junket

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00:00No, I don't I think that's the thing it's like everyone's right and everyone's wrong, you know

00:05And like it doesn't it's not it's it's the exciting thing about this film

00:10Oh, this is what I'll say the exciting thing about this film. Is that

00:14people are going to have an opinion and a very visceral one and one that it allows people to have that kind of an

00:21Exchange where it's like well, I think this no, I think this and here's why and they actually are coming out of the theater

00:27Engaged in a very like in a conversation about the story. And so what's nice about

00:34being a part of something

00:36And with this story in particular is that people are leaving the theater engaged still with the material itself

00:44And that's in itself like the joy for me

00:48Yeah, anything either of you want to add to that? I

00:52Think that

00:54at the end of the film

00:58They have found each other and that they're celebrating the fact that I

01:03Hope this is answering the right question my opinion on what the ending means, correct?

01:08I think that at the end of the film, you know, they've been all searching for a way and getting it feared like terribly wrong

01:16searching for a way to

01:19satisfy that needs that hunger for each other and

01:24They're all trying to find their way in different ways, you know, it's like for it's whether

01:32These two but for art maybe it's like

01:35Getting out of tennis and being with the family

01:38Reconnecting with his wife for Tashi. It's like finding that satisfaction in tennis that she lost by having her career stunted

01:46For Patrick, it's also finding that

01:50That feeling of flow when he was playing tennis with art as a youngster watching Tashi playing tennis as a youngster and

01:58in the end

01:59Despite the messiest way of getting of navigating themselves there. Patrick realizes in a moment that he's got both of them there

02:08Forgets everyone else in in the stadium and it's just like I know exactly how to get him

02:14That will into a place that will satisfy me him and her and let's just have that so I think it's like oh

02:22Shit, and then the joy one of my favorite moments in the film

02:26favorite looks is

02:28the look of

02:29The smirk like when I when I do that I smirk and then I was like when I first watch it

02:35I was like, please God use the tape. I'm like smoked back because if it's just me

02:40I'm a psycho and so I smirk and then it comes to and the realization of art going like

02:46Okay, I'm livid but like

02:53By the time they watch this