Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O'Connor on red carpet at Australian premiere of Challengers

Challengers star Mike Faist is hopeful the sporting love story will find success in Australia. Video via AAP.

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00:00 Well since I'm an expert as to what films are successful and which ones aren't

00:04 Yeah, this will be a hit. No, I have no idea

00:07 You know look I think all of us really connected with the story and with the script and that's why we decided to do it

00:13 So we enjoyed it

00:15 And we make things because we enjoy it and we hope to share that and hopefully it does connect with people. So

00:22 No one really knows. We don't have the answer to that. But we certainly hope so

00:26 and in terms of

00:29 Interesting question that you asked if it is and repeat the words that you said exactly again

00:34 Yeah, it's kind of like this weird thing right because we I think we naturally as humans kind of bring

00:43 Whatever sort of thing that we're trying to get out of our work like we you know

00:49 We fall in love with whatever we do whether that's storytelling and what you guys do or storytelling what we do and we can't help but

00:56 Put a piece of ourselves into that and we're trying to get something out of that as well at the same time

01:01 and so there is this kind of

01:03 Bleeding of lines of that and so it's probably both

01:06 Is the truth of the matter, you know, yeah