Tashi, a tennis player-turned-coach, has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him from a mediocre player into a world-famous Grand Slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event — close to the lowest level of tournament on the pro tour — where he finds himself standing across the net from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick: his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
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The sexy adult drama will become filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's top-grossing film domestically by midweek after serving up the second-best launch for an original R-rated adult drama since the pandemic.
“It’s funny,” Zendaya says early in our conversation about Challengers, “because people keep saying that it’s romantic.” She scoffs. “I was like, I don’t know where the romance is here.”
The Emmy-winning actress leads a film for the first time with Luca Guadagnino's upcoming project.
The actress plays tennis player-turned-coach Tashi Duncan in the romantic sports comedy, hitting theaters April 26.
The Call Me By Your Name director returns with an erotically-charged tennis drama. Read more at Empire.
Zendaya tennis drama Challengers has become a high-profile casualty of the SAG-AFTRA strike with confirmation that its Venice Film Festival world premiere has been cancelled. The film has also move…
MGM is closing deals on the project, which will shoot this spring.