Zendaya Wants To Play A Super Villain: ‘I Feel Like I Usually Play The Good Guy’

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Zendaya is eager to enter her villain era. The 26-year-old “Challengers” star, who recently shot hoops with her boyfriend Tom Holland for a charity event in Oakland, California last weekend, expressed her desire to get her bad-girl energy going in a new Elle AMA published on Aug.

23. “I would love to play a villain of sorts,” revealed the “Euphoria” star when asked about her future roles. “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.” READ MORE: Zendaya Admits She Was ‘Terrified’ Of Playing Tennis Onscreen For ‘Challengers’  “I feel like I usually play the good guy, so I’d like to play the bad guy,” the former Disney star continued.

Zendaya revealed that she’d be comfortable taking a job off the screen, too, hoping to take the director’s chair one day. READ MORE: Zendaya Sets Record Straight About That ‘Hurtful’ Viral Clip Of Law Roach Searching For His Seat At Louis Vuitton Show “To direct a film, hopefully more than just one, but just doing it,” she elaborated. “The first step to actually doing something yourself is not an easy step to take, so hopefully I can get over the fear.” Zendaya’s next big-screen flick, “Dune: Part Two”, is expected to blast into theatres in early 2024.