Zendaya is serving on and off the court in Challengers, also starring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist as tennis professionals in a complicated and competitive relationship.
Via Variety:
“Challengers” follows Tashi and her husband, Art (Faist), as they reunite with a former rival, Patrick (O’Connor) — who also happens to be Tashi’s former lover and best friend. Tashi convinces Art to enter the Challengers tennis tournament, but once Art learns he’ll be playing against Patrick, drama — and major competition — ensues.
According to the film’s official logline, “Challengers” follows “three players who knew each other when they were teenagers as they compete in a tennis tournament to be the world-famous grand slam winner and reignite old rivalries on and off the court.”
It’s directed by Luca Guadagnino, the director of I Am Love and Suspiria who knows how to make people look sexy:
Challengers is scheduled to release on August 11. 2023 in the United States, but word on the street is it may premiere at a film festival soon.
Guadagnino said Zendaya trained for months for the role and was so good by the time they filmed that they almost never used her double.
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