Twitter Is Already Justifiably Obsessed With Zendaya in “Challengers”
A new Zendaya era is upon us.
The first trailer for the actress's upcoming new film Challengers premiered today and the internet quickly lost all cool over the clip. The Luca Guadagnino directed film, which also stars The Crown's Josh O 'Conner and West Side Story's Mike Faist, follows the actress portraying a tennis star who's career was cut short by an energy and the lifelong love triangle she shares between her husband (Faist) and her former lover and best friend, (O 'Conner). Per the film's official logline the movie will center "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."
While the film was teased to be a complex story by the director, and one could describe the trailer as sultry to say the least. The role is easily Zendaya's most sensual yet with clips teasing threesomes and a remixed version of Rihanna's "S&M" soundtracking the trailer. (Considering Guadagnino also directed 2017's Call Me By Your Name, this shouldn't come as as surprise to most). Guadagnino previously described the film as a story about a trio of "f-cked up people" at a recent press call for his previous film, Bones and All.
“I think those three characters in that movie are beautifully complex and really fucked-up people that I love very much. And a sports film, why not?" the director previously shared. "It’s hyperkinetic, and I do films, so it’s great."
Below, we've rounded up the best Twitter reactions to the new trailer.
So happy that Zendaya finally gets to be hot on screen https://t.co/PUxuxulVUR
— I Could’ve Just Sat On In With Massa (@WrittenByHanna) June 20, 2023
zendaya and her bob are two powerful things pic.twitter.com/N24REB6EFr
— mara (@PARKERSFlLMS) June 20, 2023
psychosexual tennis thriller starring zendaya and tom holland's variants. oh she's taking it dot mov https://t.co/Q8ldtTbCnj
— alex (@alex_abads) June 20, 2023
Finally a project where Zendaya gets to look like the beautiful woman she is and doesn't wear baggy jeans and converse but she's tongue kissing 2 white boys https://t.co/OS46Om2weE pic.twitter.com/SVvC7uPQto
— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) June 20, 2023
zendaya in a movie where she's allowed to be as pretty as she is in real life pic.twitter.com/ewunHBPTI0
— #FREEZENDAYA (@lotstewchere) June 20, 2023
Challengers trailer dropped,,, tennis & Zendaya fans r about to feast I’ll be sat pic.twitter.com/lVfdOfyxmk
— naiya 🦆 (@naiyaalexis) June 20, 2023
HOTTEST CHARACTER OF ZENDAYA SO FAR YES pic.twitter.com/6rA1lOWBUL
— is (@DAYASCHANl) June 20, 2023
ZENDAYA THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE pic.twitter.com/U6eCvfUQvm
— cait atreides (@timcqthe) June 20, 2023
zendaya saying “i’m taking such good care of my little white boys” https://t.co/EaaKoGE2kv pic.twitter.com/9RFJIkZsBu
— ʚiɞ (@i556zl) June 20, 2023
ZENDAYA'S WORLD DOMINATION pic.twitter.com/Eqj5emMCP2
— is (@DAYASCHANl) June 20, 2023
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