Simply hours earlier than the Australian premiere of her movie Challengers, Zendaya nonetheless isn’t positive what to put on. The actor has simply touched down in Sydney to kick off promo for the Luca Guadagnino movie, with somewhat assist from her longtime stylist, Legislation Roach. “That is the primary night time, our first unh into the world,” he tells her. “This complete tennis factor is extra a couple of life-style.” However the actor pours her belief into her stylist. “I grew up with you as my trainer, so all of the issues I be taught by way of trend, I be taught by way of you,” she says. “I’m your brightest pupil!”

Contemporary off the Dune: Half Two press tour, Zendaya is already onto the subsequent factor, shifting at a breathless tempo. “That’s why I’ve dyed my hair—so it felt like a special press tour,” she says of her new honey blonde hue. Ursula Stephen, Zendaya’s hairstylist, is teasing her hair into what she calls an “previous cash” updo. “It’s going to be large and attractive,” Stephen says.

“I imagine that tennis is her past love,” Zendaya says of her Challengers character, Tashi Duncan, who suffers a career-ending damage. “The boys are simply type of avenues for her to maintain enjoying as a result of she will’t play herself.” The position is especially thrilling for Zendaya, who sees it as a second to shed her youthful picture. She’s been enjoying a teen—from a squeaky-clean Disney darling to the grungy Euphoria anti-ingenue—for almost all of her profession. “That is actually lastly me having the ability to play a lady nearer to my very own age,” she says.

Ultimately, she decides to don a inexperienced, glittering customized Loewe costume emblazoned with an precise tennis participant from Jonathan Anderson—who additionally designed the movie’s costumes. It’s an ace.

Beneath, be a part of Zendaya as she will get prepared for the Australian premiere of Challengers.

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