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Topics: Zendaya, Entertainment, News, Film and TV, Australia, Celebrity
Niamh Shackleton
Topics: Zendaya, Entertainment, News, Film and TV, Australia, Celebrity
Zendaya was asked a pretty uncomfortable question ahead of the release of her new racy movie.
Zendaya stars in Challengers alongside The Crown's Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, and it's safe to say the tennis-focused film is Zendaya's raunchiest movie to date.
The film's synopsis reads: "Tashi, a tennis player turned coach, has transformed her husband from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion."
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It goes on: "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. Tensions soon run high when he finds himself standing across the net from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick, his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend."
And Zendaya, Josh and Mike's characters end up in a rather heated love triangle, with the movie's trailer teasing some of the pulse-racing scenes between the trio.
As you'd imagine, there's a lot of kissing going on in the film, sparking Sunrise journalist Edwina Bartholomew to ask them a bit of an awkward question.
Speaking to the actors in an interview for the Australian breakfast show, Edwina asked: "Out of all of you, not giving the plot point away, who is the best kisser?"
Zendaya actually makes a 'huh?' sound to the question as she looks back confusingly at the interviewer, before Mike quickly steps in and tries to make light of the situation.
"Josh," he says.
"Thank you," the Les Miserables star replies while noting that Zendaya stayed quiet.
Laughing awkwardly, she says: "Imma' let y'all take that [question]."
People have since noted how cringe-worthy the moment was.
"Zendaya looked p*ssed off at that who’s the better kisser question. Way to ruin the moment lol," one person penned on YouTube.
Someone else wrote on X about the now-viral clip: "Mike, it seems, recognized the lameness of said question and immediately said Josh. Love these three."
"Embarrassing. Grade 3 question," said another.
Noting that Zendaya is in a longterm relationship with her Spider-Man co-star Tom Holland, a different person wrote: "An interviewer asked this to a girl who is committed because if I were her I would answer 'my boyfriend' very clearly."
Elsewhere, someone else labelled the question as 'juvenile'.
"Can we please be adults?!?" they raged. "These are such juvenile questions to ask professionals. It’s giving teenage boy. Ask a serious question please. No one even cares what the answer is."
Dozens of others echoed similar sentiments and described the question as 'stupid'.
Zendaya's representatives have been approached for comment.