Zendaya has revealed her dream role – and she wants to go to the dark side.
"I would love to play a villain of sorts," she revealed in a recent interview with ELLE. "Tap into the evil, supervillain vibes, whatever that manifests in. I don't think, necessarily, in a superhero sense, I just mean in, like, an emotional sense. I feel like I usually play the good guy, so I'd like to play the bad guy."
Her past roles have included MJ in Spider-Man: Homecoming (followed by Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home), Anne Wheeler in The Greatest Showman, and Chani in Dune and its upcoming sequel. She's also voiced Meechee the yeti in Smallfoot and Lola Bunny in Space Jam: A New Legacy – and she's right, there's not one "bad guy" in that list.
With a filmography that spans steamy romance (we can't wait to see her in the recently-delayed Challengers, directed by Luca Guadagnino) to musicals to sci-fi epics, it seems likely that she'll continue to diversify and delve into a more villainous role sometime soon.
Zendaya has also expressed a desire to direct, and she's making her producing debut with Challengers after executive producing on the HBO series Euphoria and the Netflix movie Malcolm & Marie.
