Zendaya Chats Euphoria & Spider-Man With The New York Times

Zendaya is featured in a new article for The New York Times. The young actress chatted with the newspaper outlet about her new HBO show, Euphoria. Highlights from her interview are below.

On how she relates to her character Rue: “I feel like she’s a version of myself with different choices and circumstances. Rue is a good person, she just doesn’t know it. She’s in pain. There’s something innocent and redeeming about her that reminds you that she’s a human first and an addict second.”

On knowing she was playing MJ in the new Spider-Man reboot: “Yeah, I talked to the director [Jon Watts] prior to auditioning, and he said she gets bigger as the thing goes on. I was like: ‘Dope. I’m here for the long game.’ I didn’t know she was going to be the sarcastic introvert. She’s a very guarded person and she doesn’t let a lot of people in. In the first movie, we just saw her shell. We kind of explore the softer sides of her in this upcoming one. Now she has to be more vulnerable because she likes Peter.”

On the different roles being offered to her: “I still get the corny stuff. It’s cool. I feel like I can do [‘Euphoria’] and still have another world outside of it where I can do family movies and fun things like that. I’m trying to break the habit of using the F-word now because I use it so much as Rue, and in life. I’m about to go on tour for ‘Spider-Man.’ It’s a wonderful family movie. I can’t be dropping F-bombs.”

You can check out even more from her interview here. Euphoria premieres Sunday, June 16, on HBO.