From Euphoria to Spider-Man: Far From Home and a possible budding new romance, the star has a lot to celebrate as she turns 23 on September 1.
), the series, based on an Israeli miniseries of the same name, is an edgy slice of modern-day high school life, complete with sex, drugs, and plenty of trauma. The script immediately grabbed Zendaya's attention. in June, referencing her character, a recovering and relapsing 17-year-old addict."It felt special because I don't like to read scripts, and for me to read through it faster than anything I've ever read before, obviously I connected with it somehow.
While Levinson had no doubt she could handle the gritty role, based, in part, on his own life experiences, despite the fact that she'd never done anything like it—"Sam Levinson told me, 'You were on my vision board' and I thought, 'You're joking,'" she told.
"I finally felt like I was doing something that I could push myself [with]," she told the magazine."But always you're still going to have that doubt, and [I'm] still in my head, like, Wait, can I do it?","I was really nervous because I wanted to do well. It's like going from nothing to everything — there were no steps in between. That's why people think it's such a stretch for me to play this character.
She needn't have worried. By the time the show debuted in June, critics had begun praising her"powerfully understated performance" and the Gen Z audience was immediately hooked. A second season was ordered within a month. And while a new hit TV show, one that effectively completes the transition from child star to simply star, full stop, would be more than enough for most performers, it's but one facet of the massive year Zendaya's had.In March, there was her TommyxZendaya fashion show in Paris, introducing her capsule collection designed as a part of her role as Tommy Hilfiger's new global women's brand ambassador.
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