‘Challengers’ Trailer: Zendaya Gets Hot & Heavy With Josh O’Connor & Mike Faist In Tennis Drama

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Combine tennis and a emotion triangle, and you’ve got an ace. The archetypal trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s newest movie Challengers dropped connected June 20 and gave america the archetypal glimpse of Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor successful action. The movie follows a Grand Slam tennis champion who signs up to vie successful a challenger lawsuit against his wife’s erstwhile lover.

Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor successful ‘Challengers.’ (Warner Bros.)

Tashi, Art, and Patrick roseate done the ranks of the tennis satellite together. Tashi is simply a tennis phenom and some Art and Patrick are very funny successful her. At 1 point, things get steamy arsenic Art and Patrick buss Tashi arsenic they each stock an intimate infinitesimal successful a edifice room.

Years down the road, Art and Tashi person gotten married. Tashi’s had to instrumentality a sideline coaching relation aft a gruesome injury. The emotion triangle ignites erstwhile Tashi, Art, and Patrick are successful each other’s orbit again. “I’m taking specified bully attraction of my small achromatic boys,” Tashi tells Patrick successful a heated moment.

Challengers, which volition deed theaters connected September 15, brings unneurotic 3 of Hollywood’s hottest stars. Zendaya is practically dominating Hollywood with Euphoria and Dune: Part Two. Mike had a career-defining infinitesimal successful Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake, and Josh captivated america for 2 seasons arsenic Prince Charles successful The Crown.

Luca, champion known for directing Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria, teased Challengers successful a 2022 interrogation with IndieWire. “I deliberation those 3 characters successful that movie are beautifully analyzable and truly f***ed-up radical that I emotion precise much. And a sports film, wherefore not? It’s hyperkinetic, and I bash films, truthful it’s great.” The besides manager called the movie his “first comedy” and a “fairly fizzy, sexy movie astir the satellite of tennis.”

The authoritative synopsis for the movie reads: “Follows 3 players who knew each different erstwhile they were teenagers arsenic they vie successful a tennis tourney to beryllium the world-famous expansive slam victor and reignite aged rivalries connected and disconnected the court.”

Zendaya arsenic Tashi Duncan. (Warner Bros.)

To play a manager and erstwhile player, Zendaya and the different formed members underwent extended tennis training. “She’s wonderful. I mean, wow,” Luca told Variety in 2022. “We edited the movie and we astir really don’t usage immoderate of her double. She’s truthful good.”

Luca has had thing but praise for Zendaya and the movie’s costume designer, Jonathan Anderson. “She is simply a singular filmmaker,” the manager told Interview astir moving with the Euphoria actress. “She is simply a pistillate successful bid and astatine the aforesaid time, she is wholly acceptable to become, to change, to beryllium convinced to bash thing different. She’s ace smart. I genuinely admire Zendaya, but I genuinely respect my costume decorator arsenic well.”

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