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The Guys in Challengers Should Have Switched Names
Mike Faist is clearly a Patrick Zweig, while Josh O’Connor is a total Art Donaldson.
In Challengers, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor play Arthur “Art” Donaldson and Patrick Zweig, respectively, a team of junior doubles partners whose friendship is thrown upside down by their joint crush on teenage prodigy Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), creating a tumultuous love triangle that takes this tennis trio into their 30s. I’m not sure if screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes did this on purpose, but the names in Challengers turn out to fit this dichotomy to a T. Let’s start with “Patrick Zweig,” which I think we can all agree is a kiki. They should merely pull Challengers from theaters, redub all the dialogue, and CGI the onscreen text so that Josh O’Connor’s character’s name is Art Donaldson and Faist’s is Patrick Zweig.
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