I want to make sure I’m going to love these people,” because I think that’s what really matters. I look at it like, “I’m going to be spending 12 hours a day on this, I’m going to be researching 6 hours a day before I even get on a set. I always extend it to not only the project, but the people around it, because we spend so many hours creating something. You just feel immediately connected to the character, the material, like it’s something you have to do, something you can’t let go of.ĭOMINGO: Exactly. But there’s always a gut feeling-when something feels like it’s for you. Euphoria in and of itself was a big step. Jacket, Shorts, and Boots by Givenchy, Bodysuit by Maximillian, Gloves by Gaspar.ĭOMINGO: Is this new for you, putting yourself out there, trying something, having that courage? But the only way to get great is to be fearless and try. I’m trying to apply that to other parts of my life, because I’m always afraid to do things in fear of not being great. I think something that many actors have, which is something you learn, is that you can’t be afraid to look stupid, you can’t be afraid to mess up, you can’t be afraid of anything. If it’s not working, if it doesn’t feel right, we sit down and we talk about it. ZENDAYA: With scenes, we do that all the time. I have questions about this,” and you figure that shit out. Any great art form-it’s about figuring things out. But I was like, “You know what, let me buy a bunch of film cameras and just start trying, and then if I need help, I’ll ask people like Marcell.”ĭOMINGO: But that’s exactly the way it’s supposed to work. I’m always so nervous to try things because I don’t want to not be great at them. So, when I’m on set, I’ll ask him what all the names of the different lights are and what they do and why they need them, and I try to guess what he’s going to say before he says it. We’re using Ektachrome this season-that’s almost impossible to shoot, and he somehow does it flawlessly. Anyone who’s seen his work can attest to the fact that he’s a master of his craft. ZENDAYA: Another thing that’s engaged my interest in photography is Marcell ’s work. Your girl likes to have her light from here.” I’ve now gotten to the point where I love working with certain photographers that understand light and allow me to play with the lights, because I’m like, “Okay, listen. As I got older, and with as many photo shoots as I’ve been on, I really started to understand and learn more about light-how it’s reflected and what lights are being used. And my mom would tell me stories about how he’d go out and use his light meter, sometimes spend all day taking photos of the same thing as the light changed. My grandfather passed when I was 11, but have a lot of his photography in my home. And my great-grandfather was a photographer as well, in Hollywood, actually. My grandfather was a photographer-he was also a lawyer, but in the time that he wasn’t being a lawyer, he was a photographer. ZENDAYA: I’ve always wanted to get into photography. And I noticed that you’ve really taken to photography. You’ve got some questions.” Basically, I want people to know the young woman that I’ve been getting to know.ĭOMINGO: I wanted to ask you a question that I’m fascinated with because, you don’t know this, but when I was in school, I studied photography and I loved Gordon Parks and Richard Avedon and all of these phenomenal photographers. I was preparing like it’s a Senate confirmation hearing. ZENDAYA: I’m good! Thank you so much for doing this.ĭOMINGO: Are you kidding me? This is fun! I get so over-prepared for things like this because I’m such a nerd. It’s a role, as she tells her Euphoria costar Colman Domingo, that’s given her newfound purpose. As Rue Bennett, the sometimes messy, always mesmerizing, struggling addict she plays on the show, Zendaya reached new heights in front of the camera, delivering a haunting performance that is both hard to watch and impossible to look away from. But that was just a warm-up for the second season of the HBO drama Euphoria, which marks her return to the role that made her the youngest woman to ever win an Emmy for best actress in a drama series. opposite Tom Holland in Spider-Man: No Way Home. A bonafide movie star in a culture that no longer seems to want them, and a fashion icon in a world where everyone is a model, Zendaya closed out the year by starring opposite Timothée Chalamet in the sci-fi opus Dune, before reprising her role as M.J. Only a chosen few have reached the kind of superstardom that can support just one name, and at the age of 25, the Oakland-born former Disney star has done just that. When Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman decided to go mononymous, it wasn’t just a flex, it was an omen.
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