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Zendaya has branded her new movie Challengers 'incredibly sexy' despite there being no actual sex scenes in the movie.
The Euphoria star, 27, who plays a fallen tennis icon in the film, said 'tennis is the sex' in the storyline - despite the film's steamy love triangle storyline between Zendaya's character and co-stars Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist - being heavily trailed.
She told People: 'I’ve been asked a lot about sex scenes, like, "What was it like shooting the sex scenes?" from people who have seen the movie, and I’m like, "What sex scenes?"
'And they’re like, "Oh my God, technically not really."
'We keep saying tennis is the sex in the movie, and I think tennis holds a metaphor for a lot of things: desires, passion, pain, anger, frustration.
Zendaya has branded her new movie Challengers 'incredibly sexy' despite there being no actual sex scenes in the movie
The Euphoria star, 27, who plays a fallen tennis icon in the film, said 'tennis is the sex' in the storyline - despite the film's steamy love triangle storyline between Zendaya's character and co-stars Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist (pictured) - being heavily trailed
'I think they all use tennis as this way of communicating with each other when they just don’t have the words.'
In Challengers, which is set for release on April 26, Zendaya's character - an aspiring tennis star