“I’m the best air tennis player ever”Zendaya tells us during a visit to Paris to promote Challengers, the intense and sexy drama where points are scored on and off the tennis courts. Alongside Mike Feist (West Side Story) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown), the actor plays a former champion whose career has been damaged.
Which doesn’t stop her, as well as her two male partners, from holding a racket during the tennis scenes within the story, which comes and goes over time as two opponents pass the ball back and forth. But was there much digital trickery after April 24 to achieve noticeable results in theaters?
Like in this shot where Zendaya, always her, throws a ball back into the camera so we don’t feel bad after losing the latter. “We obviously didn’t use real bullets for certain sequences”He will answer us on this topic. “Because I think it would be nearly impossible for him to go to exactly the right place at the right time. At least as far as I’m concerned.”
“I’m the best air tennis player ever”
“Obviously a lot of pressure was taken off, but we also had to make sure we found the rhythm because when you don’t have the tennis ball, it’s just mimicry and the pace can be too fast because it’s not real.”
The actor and his partners also talk about the preparations and their support. But also from playing a character with whom they have little in common on paper. If you have questions after seeing Luca Guadagnino’s film in theaters starting April 24, here are probably some answers.
Comments collected by Maximilien Pierret in Paris on April 6, 2024 – Editing by Alexandre Kour
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