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Zendaya and Nicole Kidman Unpack ‘Challengers’ Three-Way Kiss, ‘Babygirl’ Intimacy and ‘Putting Yourself Through Trauma’ by Acting


Zendaya and Nicole Kidman team up for Variety's "Actors on Actors" to discuss the risk-taking that goes into their fearless performances.

Between Luca Guadagnino’s tennis-centric love triangle “Challengers” and playing Chani opposite Timothée Chalamet’s Paul in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” Zendaya owned 2024. “I’m a Dunie!” Zendaya’s current position in Hollywood isn’t unlike that of a young Kidman, who had already worked with Tony Scott, Gus Van Sant and Jane Campion when she was that age. But Kidman, now 57, has learned a lot since then, and as they talk, she delves into her role in the A24 psychosexual drama “Babygirl” while also taking Zendaya through her playbook for building an imaginative and risky — but emotionally regulated — career.

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