Zendaya debuted one of her shortest hairstyles yet, a new pixie cut, as she reunited with her Euphoria co-stars Hunter Schafer and Alexa Demie for dinner in New York on Friday.
The 30-year-old actress met her castmates at Rule of Thirds, a Japanese restaurant in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was photographed smiling behind her security team, wearing a bright red top paired with cream-colored trousers.
Euphoria co-stars' looks at dinner
Schafer, 27, who played Jules Vaughn on the HBO drama Euphoria, looked chic in a flowing black dress, black sunglasses and a patterned shoulder bag.
Demie, 35, who played Maddy Perez on the same show, went for a casual white tank top.
Zendaya, who shed her Disney Channel child star image with her role as Rue Bennett on Euphoria, surprised onlookers with her fresh look at the gathering.
New pixie cut shown off in Prada video
She continued to show off her wavy locks over the weekend in a video posted on the Prada Beauty Instagram account. The brand's global ambassador encouraged followers to visit the Prada Paradoxe Sweet Chemistry pop-up in New York City.
Mother hits back at trolls over comments
The appearances came weeks after Zendaya's mother spoke out against negative comments about her looks, branding the criticism "sad and frustrating."
Claire Stoermer, 62, stood her ground against online trolls in a post on Instagram. Sharing a screenshot of a comment about her appearance that had appeared on her feed, she wrote: "I totally get why people have to give up Instagram for their mental health. If I was to go and read all the comments on this post about myself, I could feel really bad. There are some terrible, horrible comments, I did read some of them."
Stoermer, a former teacher, continued: "And thank goodness I don't take that s*** personally. Once upon a time I may have. And if I was a young person, I know I definitely would have. It's sad and frustrating."
She went on to reference the "four agreements," explaining: "One of them is don't take anything personally, it has nothing to do with you."
Zendaya's close bond with her parents
California-born Zendaya shares a close bond with her mother as well as her father, Kazembe Ajamu Coleman, 66, who managed her career during her early Disney Channel years. Her parents divorced when she was a child, but she has said the former couple are "still homies."
Stoermer now runs her own jewelry company, Kizzmet Jewelry, which is often worn by Zendaya. The star, who recently married Spider-Man actor Tom Holland, has often credited her mother as a role model.
"Growing up, I watched my mom teach in the heart of Oakland, California, at inner-city schools that were always underfunded," she told Teen Vogue in 2016. "My mom went above and beyond, working constantly to open her students' eyes to an education that could lift them far beyond their current circumstances."
She continued: "She would introduce them to the arts, guide them through the language of Shakespeare, and show them the wonders of nature outside city life, all things that they wouldn't have experienced otherwise. Watching her was magical; it instilled within me a true appreciation of and devotion to the importance of education."
Zendaya also told Ellen DeGeneres in 2016: "I gotta give it up to my parents. I'm really lucky to have the parents that I have. They just have always instilled in me those core values that I think I have to carry with me through everything. I give it up to them, I give it up to my family."
Zendaya shares Scottish and German ancestry on her mother's side and African American ancestry on her father's. "Zendaya knows about her Scottish heritage and is proud of it," Stoermer told the Daily Mail. "She hasn't been to Scotland yet, but I know she'd love to visit some time."
