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Zendaya wants to direct ‘simple love story about two Black girls’
Zendaya has been open about wanting to direct a movie (Picture: Getty Images)
Zendaya has opened up on her directing dreams, saying she’d love to make a romance film about two Black girls.
The Spider-Man actress has been open about her hopes to direct a film and, while she doesn’t have a specific plan for it, she’s got some ideas in mind.
Chatting to her Euphoria co-star Colman Domingo for Interview Magazine, she explained: ‘The idea of trying to direct in the future excites me…the hope is that I’ll be able to, one day, make the things that I want to see.’
Asked by Colman for an example, the actress added: ‘Like a simple love story about two Black girls.
‘And I don’t want it to be rooted in anything other than just a story about two people falling in love and that’s it. Something simple and beautiful, that leaves you happy and wanting to fall in love yourself.’
We can’t wait to see her behind the camera!
The actress has previously said that she wants to feature Black female leads if she ends up directing a film, adding to British Vogue: ‘I gotta hurry up and figure out how to f**king become a director, man.
She became the youngest Emmy winner in her category last year (Picture: ABC via Getty Images)
‘I’m trying, I’m learning every day, I really am. There’s so much I want to do.’
For the moment, the 25-year-old is absolutely smashing it as an actress, in the likes of Euphoria and Dune, and is most recently gearing up for the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home with her co-star and boyfriend Tom Holland.
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Zendaya also made history in 2020 as the youngest woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama series for her performance in Euphoria, winning against the likes of Olivia Colman, Jennifer Aniston and Jodie Comer to land the accolade.
She said at the time: ‘I’m really, really nervous… I just want to say thank you to the TV Academy, to all the other incredible women in this category, I admire you all so much, this is pretty crazy.’
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