Zendaya & Josh O'Connor on the queer themes of 'Challengers'
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- 'Call Me By Your Name' director Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, 'Challengers,' is an erotic tennis drama centered on a thorny, three-way relationship between athletes played by Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist. Recently, screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes described the central romance as “queer, by nature”-a love triangle where, indeed, “all corners” touch-so we decided to ask the trio of stars what it means to them for 'Challengers' to be considered a “queer film” and how that might’ve shaped their approaches to their roles.
Video edited by Zachery lee Ramey.
Sooo thankful it’s not 2015 anymore when actors would star in a queer af movie and then deflect about it being queer during the press tour (cough cough bohemian rhapsody)
Is it a queer film or does it just have queer elements? I think labeling it as a film *about* a queer relationship just makes the story a lot less compelling and the movie less impactful. Thereby doing less to normalize queer in general.
Josh is brilliant, I wish I could see the moment where the cameras start rolling and he goes from this shy, sort of inward seeming individual to the boastful, overly confident character he played onscreen. The switch is crazy. I mean I know that’s what being good at acting entails but it’s still fascinating to see with certain actors.
Justice for Mike Faist
Mike really doesn't care. He'd rather not have to do press interviews
Mike dont care fame,the reasons he have no social media
What happened to Mike🙄
what happened
@@ImAshley2023 Valid
Mike literally started in the Broke Back Mountain play and yore not going to talk about his queer roles?
I know you have a limited time but still
JUSTICE FOR MIKE FAIST
just the interview i was looking for! thank you for asking these questions
Interesting interview. Just saw the film and wow, what a complex character study. Really worth seeing and contemplating.
Love the interview.
So happy to see their interviews and that too, with Cameron. Such fun!
Mike Faist is right there, not to mention he's one of the leads and you don't even mention his name in the title?
Yeah because he didn’t get to share his thoughts only Zendaya and Josh answered the question. He says it at the end. Mike doesn’t even care (as evidenced by the vid) why do you?
@@alfie6441 Thank you
@@alfie6441because he’s one of the two in the “queer” relationship.
@@sigsin1 but did he get to share his ideas on queer themes in challengers? No
I think it was intentional. He had been very snarky with interviewers, they cut him off.
Just wanted to say thank you to all the tweeple who gave me a hit tweet about the recent press conferences.
I think the word Josh is looking for is Polyamory??? I haven’t seen the film so I could be wrong but from this interview alone, I feel like what he’s describing is polyamory.
i think it’s something bigger than that - more metaphorical or poetic
It’s definitely polyamory they’re just too Media trained to say it
Metaphorical polyamory?
Kind of badly timed interview but I get that Zendaya jumped in there, shame the question wasn't directed at Mike and Josh straight away, both have played much more explicit queer roles.
I think Mike especially couldn’t care less about answering these questions 😂
Zendaya played Rue as well - and she was a producer in Challengers which is why many of these questions are initially directed at her.
zendaya is very known for playing a lesbian woman in euphoria wth
awwwwww
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Josh🫦🫦
she's doing all the talking...
he asked her specifically first because she was a producer
Gay for pay
They're actors.
@@treesny Actors who are actually engaging in home essential acts for the screen to influence society for the worst. Glad it bombed at the box office ; )
😂
I don’t think Mike is completely straight