Zendaya opens up about her role as Tashi Duncan, a tennis player turned coach, in her latest film 'Challengers.'
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00:00 - Tashi is a departure from a lot of the characters
00:02 we've seen you play before.
00:03 And for one, we see her from childhood to adulthood.
00:05 And it's our first time seeing you in your 30s.
00:09 It's our first time seeing you as a mom.
00:10 So I'm kind of curious how you were able to kind of strike
00:13 those nuances while still showing her as a dynamic
00:17 powerhouse personality from being 17, 18 to being 30, 31.
00:22 - Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
00:25 I think for me, it's kind of a luxury to be able
00:29 to like carry a character through time,
00:32 because it means you don't have to create a backstory
00:34 for them, you already know where they were
00:36 and what happened to them and how they got the way they are.
00:39 And so for me, it was just about tracking emotionally
00:44 who she is and where she's at and what that injury does
00:49 to her and what, as she's older, what, there's like a,
00:55 when they're younger, there's a certain level of levity
00:59 and joy, there's like a sparkle, you know what I mean?
01:02 That over time fades and becomes jaded and becomes
01:07 desperate to just hold on to whatever she can
01:13 and keep her life together.
01:16 And this composure or this idea of a false composure,
01:21 maybe that she's portraying to other people,
01:24 because I think she's responsible being a coach,
01:26 being this, having all these duties, being a coach,
01:31 a mother, whatever, a business woman, she just,
01:35 she feels like she doesn't have the time to wallow
01:38 in her own self-pity or her own pain,
01:42 which I'm sure is an experience many women,
01:44 specifically black women face, right?
01:47 And so she just pivots and pushes forward
01:52 and we see through that pushing,
01:55 the cracks are starting to form.
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