Zendaya Says It’s ‘Refreshing’ and ‘Scary’ Breaking Away From High School Roles, but Admits ‘I Wish I Went to School’ in Real Life Instead of Just Acting
09.04.2024 - 15:23
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Zendaya‘s most prolific roles to date in HBO’s “Euphoria,” which won her two Emmys for outstanding lead actress in a drama series, and three of Marvel’s “Spider-Man” films have something in common: High school. But she’s leaving the classroom behind for her new film, Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” which casts Zendaya as a tennis phenom and finds her at one point during the movie playing a mother in her early 30s. “I’m always in a high school somewhere,” Zendaya recently told Vogue magazine about her career thus far.
“And, mind you, I never went to high school.” The actor said breaking away from high school roles in “Challengers” was “refreshing. And it was also kind of scary, because I was like, ‘I hope people buy me as my own age, or maybe a little bit older, because I have friends that have kids, or are having kids.'” Zendaya never went to high school herself. Her career took off when she was the 14-year-old star of Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up,” which led into another Disney hit, “K.C.
Undercover,” and then an entire acting career that had no time to slow down for a proper classroom education. “I have complicated feelings about kids and fame and being in the public eye, or being a child actor. We’ve seen a lot of cases of it being detrimental,” Zendaya told Vogue.
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