Luca Guadagnino's sexy tennis drama dispenses with the taboo around acknowledging the sensual appeal of athletes.
If there’s one movie that everyone in your life will be talking about this spring—from the sports fans to the film bros, the fashion heads to the Broadway crowd—it’s Challengers. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, the movie tells the tale of two tennis players (Patrick Zweig, played by O’Connor, and Art Donaldson, played by Faist) as they rise from youth prodigies into respectively rocky adulthoods. At the center of it all is Tashi Duncan, played by Zendaya, who shares a romantic...
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Challengers. Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers opened at the top of the U.S. box office, and one scene from the movie went viral on social media. The particular scene involves Josh O’Connor’s Patrick and Mike Faist’s Art eating churros. At this moment in the film, Patrick visits his girlfriend Tashi […]
How sexy can a qualifying tennis tournament in New Rochelle, New York, be? When the on-court drama involves Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the answer turns out to be quite a bit more than your average USTA singles match in Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers.”
BRIAN VINER: The Italian director Luca Guadagnino certainly can't be accused of making boring films. His last, 2022's Bones And All, was about cannibalistic serial killers.
Luca Guadagnino's tennis movie, "Challengers," starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor, is so much more. Review.
Ahead of its theatrical release this coming Friday (read our review here), the final trailer has landed online for Luca Guadagnino’s drama Challengers which stars Zendaya as Tashi, a tennis coach working on a strategy to help her husband (Mike Faist) break his losing streak, which takes a surprising turn when he must face off […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Final trailer for Challengers...
Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist discuss the thematic significance of the traveling 'I Told Ya' shirt in 'Challengers'
On June 20, 2022, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor sat at the edge of a motel bed on either side of Zendaya, kissing, licking and biting her neck. As Art and Patrick, their respective “Challengers” characters, they were desperate for more of Tashi, played by Zendaya, and desperate to mask their desperation. Zendaya’s mind was […]
Although Zendaya previously revealed that there are no sex scenes in her new movie Challengers, the Luca Guadagnino movie's steamy love triangle still has audiences talking
Zendaya serves up a deliciously savage tennis queen at the center of the love triangle drama "Challengers."
This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the global fashion week circuit. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. What makes Josh O’Connor’s outfits in Challengers so alluring? On paper at least, it’s not obvious. When we meet dirtbag tour pro Patrick Zweig (played by O’Connor) in Luca Guadagnino’s sweaty tennis ménage à trois, he is in the finals of a dinky regional tournament, wearing a kit that looks like it was pulled off the top of...