Zendaya is actually playing an adult for the entirety of The Drama. Sure, she’s played a couple before, in films like Malcolm And Marie and some of Challengers, but The Drama makes it very clear that her character is 30 years old, the same age the real Zendaya will turn this year. As such, she’s dealing with some very adult problems in her upcoming marriage to Robert Pattinson’s character, even if we don’t fully know yet what they are.
It starts out simply enough. In a game of “say the worst thing you’ve ever done” with their couple friends (played by Alana Haim and Mamoudou Athie), Zendaya shares some secret that sucks all the air out of the room. Suddenly, the cute cold feet of wedding planning are replaced with worries of arriving at an Industry-type “Who the fuck did I marry?” moment. The music even shift from “Theme From ‘A Summer Place'” to “Les Fleurs” to let you know that the drama has become The Drama.
The Drama is directed by Kristoffer Borgli, who has made his name on high-concept dark comedies like Dream Scenario and Sick Of Myself. The Drama is actually one of three movies that Pattinson and Zendaya have on the docket together in 2026, followed by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Denis Villeneuve’s third Dune movie. “She’s great. I really, really like her. And yeah, she’s incredible in The Drama as well and in all of them,” he told GQ last month. “Well, I haven’t seen what she did in The Odyssey. I just saw her pictures and we saw each other in passing.” There you have it! The Drama opens in theaters on April 3.
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