THE DRAMA Stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson Cover INTERVIEW Magazine

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Welcome to Robert Pattinson and Zendaya’s first interview about THE DRAMA, Kristoffer Borgli’s twisted romance that brings the two superstars face to face as a couple in freefall. They’ve gone on to shoot two more movies together, Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY and Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE: PART THREE, creating the kind of run that turns costars into actual friends. During the call, Rob was on vacation and wired on caffeine. Zendaya was taking a break from scrubbing grout. Neither was in promo mode, just two actors confronting the absurdity of selling something they don’t yet know how to explain.

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PATTINSON: I get told that I’m very anti-confrontational, but when I say no, I only mean it partially. My no is a yes in disguise.

ZENDAYA: I want to avoid confrontation. I want to make people happy, so if I have to do something to make everything good, I’ll probably do it. But I usually know pretty quickly if I want to do something or not when I read a script. I read this one and was like, “Yeah, I want to do this.” I don’t know if you have the same thing with scripts, but I really struggle to get through them. I don’t know if it’s an attention span issue.

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PATTINSON: I was listening to a podcast yesterday with a director, and when I hear someone who’s eloquent, it makes me really angry. I felt inspired by thinking that eloquence is a kind of classist act. I was like, there’s something honest about not being able to express yourself. It’s proletarian to not be able to say anything. Next question. Do you think being a public figure makes it harder to disappear into characters?

ZENDAYA: Yes and no. Something I admire about you is you keep so much of your life to yourself, which is a beautiful thing, especially having a family. I’m learning how to balance those things. At the end of the day, you’re a public figure, there’s nothing you can do, but some things are meant for yourself and for your loved ones, and then also allowing for that space between the anonymity of you, so that you can play someone else and they won’t necessarily always put you in—I mean, we just talked about being eloquent.

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