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Zendaya is opening up about filming the intimate scenes in 'Challengers.' The movie centers on a love triangle involving Zendaya's character Tashi Duncan, Art (played by Mike Faist) and Patrick (played by Josh O'Connor). While the project is a tennis film, the romantic tension between the characters is at the heart of the movie.

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00:00Zendaya is opening up about filming the intimate scenes in Challengers.

00:04The movie centers on a love triangle involving Zendaya's character Tashi Duncan, Art, played

00:09by Mike Feist, and Patrick, played by Josh O'Connor.

00:12While the project is a tennis film, the romantic tension between the characters is at the heart

00:16of the movie.

00:17Zendaya said this about shooting the movie's romantic scenes to THR Roma at the film's

00:21Italian premiere.

00:22Well, we did have an intimacy coordinator who was fantastic and very helpful and I think

00:27the most important thing is feeling safe.

00:28She went on to detail how she and her cast mates worked to feel at ease around each other

00:32while shooting those intimate scenes.

00:34I think just having conversations with my fellow actors and making sure we all felt comfortable

00:38with each other.

00:39We had tennis training together, we worked out together, we did rehearsals together, so lots

00:43of time to bond and feel comfortable and safe.

00:46Feist echoed those sentiments.

00:48We spent a lot of time together in rehearsals, both Zendaya and Josh and myself, so we got

00:55to know each other as people before, you know, just diving into the works.

01:00So we got very familiar with each other as humans and we got comfortable and we created

01:05a good friendship for that kind of baseline security.

01:09Challengers, its theaters on April 26th in the U.S.

01:12For more on this story and more on the movie Challengers, head to THR.com.

01:16This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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