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that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with easter eggs challengers It actually has nothing to do with Zendaya's own history with Marvel superheroes.
After playing MJ in her boyfriend Tom Holland's live-action movie spiderman Zendaya stars as tennis prodigy Tashi in director Luca Guadagnino's erotic love triangle movie challengers. Later in the film, Tashi and her husband Art (Mike Feist) are having a heated argument when her young daughter Lily (AJ Lister) interrupts by asking if they can watch a cartoon. spider verse A movie will be shown instead of tennis, which is currently on TV.
You might think this reference was intentional to refer to Zendaya. spiderman Connection (even if she doesn't voice the character) spider verse franchise), the director says. entertainment weekly In fact, it was his idea to include it.
“When you get the rights to use something in a movie, it's very complicated,” he says. “Our amazing producer, Amy Pascal, helped us there. I said, 'Amy, can we use one of your catalog titles to make it easier to clear?' ” [Lily]It's a girl.she won't choose to watch social network or postBut maybe she's going to watch the Spider-Man cartoon, so I said, spider verse? ”
It took the director a while to understand the second meaning the audience would get from that reference. “Now I realize it sounded like a joke. You know, the unconscious is always guiding us,” he says.
And what a complicated web it weaves!
— Additional reporting from Jerad Hall
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