‘Challengers’ Stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor & Mike Faist Talk Viral Churro Scene: “That Was My First Churro”
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Challengers. Luca Guadagnino‘s Challengers opened at the top of the U.S.
box office, and one scene from the movie went viral on social media. The particular scene involves Josh O’Connor’s Patrick and Mike Faist‘s Art eating churros.
At this moment in the film, Patrick visits his girlfriend Tashi (Zendaya) at Stanford but first catches up with his best friend Art in a cafeteria, where they bond over the doughy pastry. “What I will say is…that was my first churro and I hadn’t eaten anything that day,” O’Connor said in an interview with Capital FM. “So I was starving and tasted my first churro – and churros are extraordinary.
So I ate my one and then I ate his [pointing to Faist].” Zendaya then said, “The churro wasn’t scripted, was it? The churro was something that you guys found right, with Luca?” Faist and O’Connor said the scene “was definitely a Luca thing,” referring to the director.
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