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SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Luca Guadagnino's sports drama Challengers is proving to be Zendaya's strongest movie yet, making her nomination for an Oscar at next year's ceremony a real possibility. Zendaya is electric as Tashi Donaldson née Duncan, a former teen tennis prodigy whose career was cut short by an injury, prompting her to become a coach instead.
Related Challengers Review: Zendaya's Sexy Tennis Drama Is As Thrilling As Any Action Blockbuster Challengers is visceral, exhilarating, & sexy: power dynamics shift with the force of tectonic plates & tennis matches are staged like action scenes. 9 Tashi's First Tennis Match Tashi is surreal and vicious while playing tennis. There is a lot at stake for the movie with the first scene showing Tashi in a tennis match.
Throughout her diatribe, Tashi is smiling and coy, enjoying every word that she says. This is Tashi at a younger point in her life, where she is enjoying all the advantages her talent and hard work have brought her. Tashi says things during this conversation that she will go back on later, but Zendaya can still support the enigmatic nature of the character that Guadagnino was going for.
It is indicative that Art, to some degree, thinks Tashi should want a more traditional relationship dynamic when, for her, it is all about tennis. Tashi may not have the wisdom she does later on in her life, but Zendaya creates a fascinating performance out of great dialogue. Even as a young woman, Tashi is assertive about not wanting what everyone thinks she should want.
Tashi rarely shows any kind of weakness throughout Challengers. However, her injury leaves her shaken. After a bad practice with Art where she is hindered by her weak knee, Tashi storms off and sits down at the base of a tree somewhere on the Stanford campus. She doesn't completely panic, but agitatedly tears at her brace, wanting to get it off for just a moment.
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