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Zendaya Shared Her "Complicated Feelings" On Child Stardom As She Recalled Being "Thrust" Into A "Very Adult Position" At A Young Age When She Became The Family "Breadwinner"


"I'm almost going through my angsty teenager phase now because I didn't really have the time to do it before. I felt like I was thrust into a very adult position: I was becoming the breadwinner of my family very early, and there was a lot of role reversal happening."

Zendaya portrayed Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson in the Marvel film alongside leading actor Tom Holland, whom she began dating in 2021. She starred alongside Zac Efron in The Greatest Showman later in 2017, landed the leading role in the hit HBO series Euphoria in 2019, and appeared in Denis Villeneuve's Dune in 2021. "Now, when I have these moments in my career – like, my first time leading a film that's actually going to be in a theater – I feel like I shrink, and I can't enjoy all the things that are happening to me, because I'm... very tense," she shared.

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