Zendaya made jaws drop as she posed up a storm with her Challengers co-stars as they promoted the new sports romance film at Amazon MGM Studios’ photo call in Los Angeles.
The 27-year-old actress looked stunning and showed off her unique style in a two-piece pink set that displayed her tiny waist and connected through a tied bow.
The top resembled a crop polo with rounded out cutout under her chest with the bow acting as a a string connecting to the 1950s-esque skirt.
Her voluminous honey-blonde blocks were perfectly styled and curled with a matching headband.
She paired the look with pointy pink heels that tied into the bow theme as she added silvers rings.
Zendaya made jaws drop as she posed up a storm with her Challengers co-stars as they promoted the new sports romance film at Amazon MGM Studios’ photo call in Los Angeles
She looked stunning and showed off her unique style in a two piece pink set that displayed her tiny waist alongside her co-stars Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor and director Luca Guadagnino
Her voluminous honey-blonde blocks were perfectly styled and curled with a matching headband
The Spiderman: Homecoming star took to her Instagram story to share snaps of her look as the movie’s opening night approaches.
In Challengers, which is set for release on April 26, Zendaya’s character – an aspiring tennis star – gives up her career after suffering a major injury.
Instead, she focuses on coaching her colleague Art, played by Mike Faist, whom she falls in love with and marries.
But Tashi finds her feelings dangerously divided after Art is enrolled on the Challenger Tour, where he faces off against Tashi’s ex-boyfriend Patrick, played by Josh O’Connor.
The sizzling feature comes from Suspiria and Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino and boasts several steamy scenes.
The acclaimed filmmaker praised Zendaya’s talents, explaining she worked with tennis pro and former player Brad Gilbert to prepare for the part.
Luca gushed to Variety last October: ‘She’s wonderful. I mean, wow. We edited the movie and we almost actually don’t use any of her double. She’s so good.
He added that ‘all three leads spent like three months working very hard—technically, athletically.’
The former Disney star told People: ‘I’ve been asked a lot about sex scenes, like, “What was it like shooting the sex scenes?” from people who have seen the movie, and I’m like, “What sex scenes?”
‘And they’re like, “Oh my God, technically not really.”
She added, ‘We keep saying tennis is the sex in the movie, and I think tennis holds a metaphor for a lot of things: desires, passion, pain, anger, frustration.
‘I think they all use tennis as this way of communicating with each other when they just don’t have the words,’ she finished.
Challengers is set for release on Friday April 26, but is available to watch in select theaters the day prior
The film’s director praised Zendaya’s talents, explaining she worked with tennis pro and former player Brad Gilbert to prepare for the part
In a recent interview, Zendaya admitted that having an intimacy coordinator on set was ‘very helpful,’ and praised them for keeping a ‘safe’ environment on set.
‘We had an intimacy coordinator which was fantastic and very helpful, because it was important that we felt safe,’ she told The Hollywood Reporter.
The film is suffused with ‘intense’ erotic scenes between Zendaya and her leading men, so the trio needed to find ways to decompress when they were on camera.
‘I spoke with my colleagues so that we could find a way to feel at ease. We played tennis together, we went out together, we rehearsed together,’ she shared. ‘We got to bond and feel good with each other.’
She even said filming the sexy scenes were ‘so good’ because she was ‘lucky’ enough to work with Josh and Mike, who ‘always had her back’.
She told The Mirror: ‘Tashi is extremely driven. She’s a go-getter and she is totally ruthless. The intimate scenes were so good, I loved it.
‘I felt very lucky to be partnered with those guys. And for whatever the moment, it always felt like they always had my back and I had theirs.’
And although she found the intimate scenes easy to film, Zendaya struggled with the physical aspect of the movie, admitting ‘it was the most challenging’.
She added: ‘How did I meet the physical challenges of the role? With great difficulty. I am not one of these people who love to wok out. But Tashi is supposed to be a top athlete, so there was no getting around it.’
‘I felt very lucky to be partnered with those guys,’ she said of her co-stars (pictured left)
Zendaya struggled with the physical aspect of the movie, admitting ‘it was the most challenging’
She admitted that having an intimacy coordinator on set was ‘very helpful,’ and praised them for keeping a ‘safe’ environment on set
The starlet is currently romancing Spiderman actor Tom Holland, 27
The brunette beauty is currently romancing English actor Tom Holland, 27, who portrays Spiderman in the latest Marvel series.
Zendaya and Tom met on the set of Spiderman: Homecoming in 2017, but predominantly keep their relationship out of the public eye.
Speaking about her relationship, she said: ‘We were both very, very young, but my career was already kind of going, and his changed overnight
‘I definitely watched his life kind of change in front of him. But he handled it really beautifully,’ she finished.
