How Justin Kuritzkes crafted Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist’s perfectly satisfying—but intriguingly ambiguous—final scene.
This article contains spoilers for the ending of Challengers. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor, Challengers is a sweaty, sexy sprint through the world of professional tennis. It’s framed around a seemingly low-stakes tournament match between Art Donaldson and Patrick Zweig , childhood friends who have spent the last decade-plus tangled in a love triangle with former tennis prodigy Tashi Donaldson , who is now Art’s wife and coach.
In a brilliant moment of nonverbal communication, Patrick pauses at the baseline, then imitates Art’s habit of touching the ball to the throat of his racquet before serving. Tashi doesn’t know what’s going on between the two men, but the audience does: When Patrick and Tashi date as teenagers, he’s coy about whether they’ve slept together yet. Art playfully tells Patrick to mimic his serve if he and Tashi have. The bit isn’t so cute now, since it’s an admission of marital infidelity.
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