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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
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Lia Beck

How Zendaya Helped Co-Star Robert Pattinson When He Was "Going Crazy" for Three Days Over a Scene

Robert Pattinson in a black suit jacket and white shirt at The National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala in January 2025.

Confirmed! Zendaya is the direct, yet calming presence she seems like. (Doesn't she seem like that? I can't be the only one who thinks so.) In a new interview, Robert Pattinson—Zendaya's co-star in the upcoming film The Drama and man who does not sound like a particularly calming presence—explained that the Challengers actor was able to soothe him and give him the advice he needed when he spent three days "going crazy" over a line in their script.

"We had a scene together that was driving me crazy,” Pattinson told the French publication Première (via IndieWire). “I was desperately looking for its meaning, writing pages and pages of textual analysis."

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