Zendaya dishes about her approach when learning how to play tennis for her role as Tashi Duncan in Challengers.
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00:00 Yes, absolutely not a tennis player before.
00:02 [laughs]
00:03 No experience.
00:04 So, quite the challenge.
00:08 But, you know, part of the way through,
00:11 because tennis, I don't know if you've ever played,
00:13 but like, unless you've been playing
00:14 since you were four years old,
00:16 you're not gonna be Venus or Serena anytime soon, okay?
00:20 So I came to that conclusion very early,
00:23 and I realized, you know,
00:24 okay, so how am I going to approach this?
00:27 And truthfully, you know, Luka doesn't typically
00:30 do storyboards, but for all the tennis sequences
00:33 between the boys and myself,
00:34 everything was storyboarded and planned and choreographed.
00:39 Because you can't, no matter how great you are,
00:41 you can't put the ball in the same place every time.
00:45 Like, tennis is not like, it is improvised.
00:50 It's not like a choreographed sport, you know?
00:53 So we had to approach it from a sense of choreography,
00:57 so I tried to approach it from like, a dance perspective.
01:02 And like, I was learning a dance,
01:04 and I just tried to like,
01:05 sync up with my double as much as possible,
01:08 match her footwork and her form,
01:12 and just, you know, visually try to mirror her
01:16 as much as possible.
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