Zendaya hasactually been hectic on the press trip for “Challengers,” the tennis drama which includes a much-hyped kiss inbetween the starlet and costars Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, something that she’s been asked about numerous times. After recruiter Jake Hamilton pointed out that it’s felt like everybody is consumed with speaking to Zendaya particularly about who she kisses or doesn’t kiss in a film, the starlet concurred, responding, “It’s extremely odd.”
“I feel like for a hundred years stars haveactually been kissing other stars on the screen,” Hamilton stated. “It’s actually a part of your task. You play a function that needs kissing, it’s a thing that you have to do. But I feel like when you do it, since I seen interviews from these press trips. When you do it, there’s an irregular quantity of attention paid—”
“— I understand,” Zendaya cut in. “It’s really odd.”
“Do you feel like as a society individuals haveactually forgotten that an star kissing another star is actually part of your task? Or are they utilizing it as an reason to get you to talk about kissing?” Hamilton included.
“I have no concept,” Zendaya responded. “I wear’t understand if it’s since they desire it to be a viral thing, I puton’t understand. But I haveactually seen that, with me particularly. I feel like other stars wear’t… if you were with someone else here, you mostlikely wouldn’t be asked that concern. But, yeah, it is a part of my task, and it is a entirely regular part of the task, I believe, inspiteof other individuals’s understandings of our task.”
The subject of kissing has followed Zendaya most of her profession. In 2021, she admitted that she put her foot down when asked to kiss a costar on her 2010-2013 Disney Channel program “Shake