Zendaya follows Timothée Chalamet advice for 'Challengers'

Zendaya recently revealed the advice she received from Timothée Chalamet before accepting role for Luca Guadagnino's Challengers.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zendaya shared that Chalamet, who had previously worked with Guadagnino encouraged her to accept the role.

She said that her Dune co-star, Chalamet, "said wonderful things" about Challengers' director Guadagnino.

"Luca is brilliant and I’ve wanted to work with Luca for a very long time and this just seemed like the absolute perfect thing," she added.

The Spider-Man: No Way Home actress reflected, "When we first met about the script he had such a keen, deep understanding of the characters from the beginning and a clearer idea of the kind of movie he wanted to create. And the script was brilliant, [writer] Justin Kuritzkes is so talented and I’m so happy for him. So it all made sense."

In Challengers, which also stars Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, Zendaya plays a former tennis prodigy turned coach, who tries to boost her struggling champion husband's confidence by entering him into a tournament.

This setup leads to an intense reunion with his former best friend and her ex-boyfriend, played by O'Connor.