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Zendaya Goes Deep on the Making of ‘Malcolm & Marie’

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Kate Aurthur editorIt was lucky for the filmmakers behind the self-financed “Malcolm & Marie” that they didn’t have a studio behind them, said Zendaya, the movie’s star and producer, because it took them two days of shooting to figure out what they were doing.

After they had shot — and thrown out — “two days of unusable footage,” Zendaya said, its writer-director-producer Sam Levinson told her that if they were filming a big-budget movie, “we would have been fired.”Instead, they made “Malcolm & Marie” — a black-and-white drama set over the course of one long night, starring Zendaya and John David Washington — on spec, and ended up selling it to Netflix for $30 million.

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