As I’ve said before, I really like Zendaya and I worry about her a little bit. I feel like Zendaya and Millie Bobby Brown have a lot in common: they both became the breadwinners for their entire families at a very young age. They both had to mature very quickly, and it’s given both young ladies an “old before their time” vibe. Zendaya is currently 22 years old and she’s still picking up multiple jobs. She covers the latest issue of Vogue to promote her new HBO show, Euphoria, and to promote her Tommy Hilfiger contract/collaboration and about a million other projects. The interview itself is good, but there’s not much new stuff here, especially if you’ve read Z’s interviews before. You can read the full Vogue piece here. Some highlights:
On Euphoria, based on the Israeli show of the same name, where Zendaya plays a drug-addicted teen: “Obviously, there’s not much in my own experience of being a teen that I could draw on, especially when it comes to struggling with addiction. My policy is, when in doubt: Ask Sam [Levinson, the show-runner]. Because Sam’s gone through all that, and, you know . . . basically, he’s Rue.”
On the scandal about Giuliana Rancic’s comments about her dreadlocks: “That whole thing was so crazy. I mean, I’d basically snuck onto the red carpet, the plus one of a plus one.” At last year’s Oscar ceremony,Zendaya floated onstage in a diaphanous Giambattista Valli gown. “I got invited back as a presenter,” she notes matter-of-factly. “So I guess I won.”
She’s interested in the issue of gentrification. “I keep thinking, Is there a way I can help with this, through art? I mean, obviously, I’ve got a platform”— about 55 million people follow Zendaya on Instagram—“but I also know, don’t just post whatever. You’ve got to listen to people. Talking is important. But walking the talk is important, too.”
The career that interests her: “I can tell you, one celebrity whose career I think is interesting is Donald Glover. He’s given himself permission to do . . . whatever. And whatever he does—he goes deep, you know?”
There’s more in there about growing up in Oakland and seeing the protests when Oscar Grant was murdered, and the rise of Black Lives Matter, but what’s interesting to me is that Zendaya doesn’t seem very connected to that right at this very moment. I mean, she’s a political person, she’s interested in political activism, but she’s not going to give anyone a big political lecture in the middle of a Vogue interview. It’s not like her stage-parents shut her down either – she shut herself down because she knows Vogue’s not the place. Also: there are a few references to Tom Holland sprinkled throughout the Vogue piece, but Zendaya isn’t even asked directly if she’s dating Tom. I think they are still dating though? Or did they break up and no one told me?
Photo and cover courtesy of Vogue.
I love her no makeup look. Or maybe it’s makeup trying to look natural? Either way, so not trashy, compared to others!
Are you comparing wearing makeup to be trashy?
Reread what I wrote.
Zendaya doesn’t like being pitted against other women in that way. It’s great that by 18 or 19, despite her more ‘classy’ (but still awesome. I would love her wardrobe) style and choices, she was already not here for the ‘Not That Kind of Girl’ game women are expected to play at other women’s expense. There are people years and decades older than her who sadly never get to that point.
I hate what photoshop did to the right part of her chest on the cover! Very unprofessional.
I LOVED this photoshoot. Idk if it’s one of her bests ones, but it’s deff one of my favorites.
I love the picture of her in the floral dress.
Since when is she wearing short hair? Not a big fan of that look on her, it makes her look more baby-faced.
I always love her look.
Zendaya parent were both teachers they didn’t push zendaya into acting or use her as cash cow her parents raise her to be a kind smart driven woman who knows her worthy. On the another hand Mille father is a stage father who has a know reputation as being a horrible stage father unlike zendaya parents they help her guide her They don’t have reputation of being stage parents.
Yeah, ive never heard that shes the breadwinner for her family anywhere…?
comparing zendaya parents to Millie brown parents is ridiculous their is no evidence whatsoever that zendaya parents are stage parents or use zendaya as cow cash . Zendaya parents don’t have that type of reputation in fact I don’t even think they managed her unlike Mille parents her dad is her manager when strangers things came the were articles that came out that paint Mille dad as very difficult that he Cost her some deals because he was so difficult to deal with it