"More sweat!" Challengers' Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor on sweat, grunts and tennis fails

so feel free to answer this question by pointing out um but who in the room is the best at

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yeah alright who in the room is the worst interesting okay it's definitely oh I don't think so so you don't know what

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is it A relationship? We went somewhere really beautiful together. Come on, who was the most likely to break up? Not in a tennis shape or a corpse. Just start laughing. Really break. I'm sorry. She starts laughing. Yes, in the middle of a take. It's definitely you, it's absolutely you. I'm not surprised because you spent a lot of this movie in people's personal space.

Yes it's true. Actually, yes, you are there. I'm right, right? What do you think? How dare you, Jesus Christ? Do you want my best piece? Some advice for you, you want me to leave, aren't you okay? Disclaimer, what's the trick to passive aggressively eating a banana? I don't know, you mean yourself. I made reference to myself the other day in an interview and was told I was thinking about Nick. curiosities and I was thinking that he does something incredible, he eats banana and then they said: Josh, that's you in the movie, he's so good, he's so good, uh, I'm telling you, he's completely narcissistic.

I, yeah, not a lot of people know him and who he was. You will most likely forget the lines in front of Luca. You guys were pretty smart. I don't remember we punched our lines. Yes, I think we were all pretty. I don't think there's ever been a dry or a dead body to be honest, no, no, but. If so, I was on the edge, yes, so tell me how we first met because I imagine they would have like a chemistry test, but also like a tennis test. It's true? What we did, the chemistry we did, yes.

In this. Very Hotel really comes full circle well, well, that's right, that's right, that's right, they let you know that, yeah, while they just brought you in, Josh, yeah, I was just hoping, yeah, a hope in a sentence, yeah, it will do, they said yes. He'll do it, did you guys have to audition for tennis because otherwise none? The first day of tennis training was interesting. Okay, there were a lot of sighs. Their coach simply said: Yes, but they also know what it was. I really like this because we saw that he was really good and I remember looking into your eyes like we're not doing what he's doing, let's work on this at home on our own time, yeah, I will.

Say there, you know, when you're trying out a new skill, at least I feel incredibly insecure doing it in front of people and we were on courts next to each other, so I was like, please don't look over here, just No, Don't really look at me, please, because I was right next to the windows, I was right in front and I was so embarrassed that I would hate to have a reflection of myself not playing tennis well, like the mirrors in gyms, no, thank you . By the way, I don't need that, how hard is it? I'm going to ask this question to the guys, obviously.

I guess how good they are at dealing with Zena's unimpressed face, because I've had it a couple of times and this one. movie, you both get it so much, how does my face look unimpressed, come on, come on, it's like eyebrows down, okay, there it is, yeah, it looks familiar, yeah, it's like a marriage, I'm not impressed, of Do I remember that there is one specifically in the movie? which is, I think it's one of my favorite looks, which is when I say I come and say, do you want to go out and smoke a cigarette? and you say you do this look and it's killer, right?

It really

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you. I asked: I won't name their names, two people to do a special Spider-Man handshake and your look afterwards was like the same skin guns, it's the guns, it's the finger guns at the end that attract people Yes, because they change in a similar way. Look, it's very funny. Paddington Stair Shivers, but you must have moments with director Luca. He is a legend. Will you ever get caught up in the moment? I just got a no from Luca and do you have anything memorable? I think

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, yeah, I'm going to stick with that, sorry, just press the button, yeah, exactly, no, absolutely, I think he has, he's very specific and I think what's really cool is that during our process rehearsal, it was a lot of fun, he, us, totally gave it to us.

We have room to play and discover these characters and talk about it, which is like a rare luxury in this kind of situation to be able to spend so much time with your fellow actors and get to know these characters and discuss what's on the show. page, but as we were rehearsing, I remember he had very specific ideas about how to try to put your like, just try to lean your head on it in that line or try to like, I remember he was like communicating with her in First I feel like I feel like it would be very strange to do that, at that moment in your head you say: I don't know if that's my instinct to do that and then you do it and it's brilliant, you know? it just has these little human things, it's kind of nice, I'll say that, yeah, you can add and and and and I think that's that beautiful collaboration where you can bring things in and your director can bring things in and bring them together. you can find something really special.

I'm so glad you had that rehearsal time because you called this movie codependency, the movie yeah, come here, which one of us? and if you don't have time to get to know us, it's not going to sell it's not going to fly it's not going to work I'm also curious and this is a question of true curiosity how many hours did you spend at the ADR booth breathing and straining oh my God why this It's a tennis movie and there's a moment where you just run, you do more, you do a lot more, can you imagine how embarrassing it is that we didn't talk about this together, but it was embarrassing for you in the dark room, to people like it, what did they do?

Doing all the moves like a microphone, I had to hold the microphone and I was like, and that's good too, um, and it was very embarrassing, yeah, being an actor is very embarrassing, sometimes you just have to say, how was your day? ?, shudder. Cring 5 hours of embarrassment just running around a room Yeah just pretending to hold a tennis racket I don't know why I'm like I don't think you pretended to hold the tennis racket no I could say I could I could say what were the other alternative names you think that could have applied to this movie other than watching the movie attractive tennis Rivals attract tennis Rivals more sweat the movie I was going to say more sweat we have to talk more about that because particularly in That final, I was about to say fight, the final fight, it's really yeah, a soggy fight, it's a battle, were there people running at you with spray guns or throwing buckets, but I will say, Mike, a lot of that was real. yeah M Mike started his when he found out SK, yeah when he knew they were going to start shooting he made his own, some people may cry for Q, this guy sweats for Q, sweats for Q, he can sweat for Q, it is doing.

Now yeah, we're talking about it, you're just thinking: can I give you a compliment? Yes, I wonder when this will end. You look fantastic, great, look, it's there, right there, you have to do it too and I love this in tennis movies. It's a must oh, yeah, of course, oh, I think that's the whole back, I think they broke your neck, yeah, you came in the next day with a but it was, I mean, honestly, they had to like it, um, did they? how they did it? y'all look, you just had the doubles game, oh that's right, like a back and forth rally, there was no doubles, I know there were no doubles, it's all of you doubles, um, but you know what's interesting is also like in those moments where everyone is looking and looking back and forth, it really highlights the moments where she gets inside her own head because you see that her head is the only one that stays still for a moment and then comes back to this movement, so I think it was kind. of a brilliant storytelling device that LCA used, no joke, I totally agree and will say this.

I love the idea that one day you come home with an injury and it wasn't me from tennis from tennis just by watching. I had a real A tough day watching tennis guys okay this is where I say goodbye cheers thank you so much I appreciate it thank you for watching if you enjoyed this video don't forget to subscribe and click the bell icon to stay updated. You can listen to my radio one movies. and TV podcast screen time on BBC Sounds and you can find these full interviews on bbci player by searching for movies with Ali Clum.