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After spending a decade in front of the camera,Zendayais ready to move to the director’s chair.
The actress, 25, toldBritishVoguein a cover story for the magazine’s October issue that she’s hoping to expand her career in the film industry and move into directing next.
Calling art “a huge catalyst for change,” Zendaya said she hopes to champion diversity in Hollywood.
“If I ever do become a filmmaker, I know that the leads of my films will always be Black women,” she said.
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“I gotta hurry up and figure out how to f—— become a director, man. I’m trying, I’m learning every day, I really am,” she said. “There’s so much I want to do.”
Zendaya’sEuphoriadirector, Sam Levinson, is confident that the actress will make a seamless transition into directing one day. He toldVoguehe predicts she’ll be “an astonishing filmmaker.”
While she’s yet to test out her directing chops, Zendaya has produced multiple projects, including her Netflix filmMalcolm & Marie, two episodes ofEuphoriaand multiple episodes of her Disney Channel seriesK.C. Undercover.
In a February interview withThe New York Times, Zendaya touched on her aspirations to direct, telling the paper she would “love to be able to be a filmmaker” and that she was learning the ropes from Levinson.
“Sam [Levinson] is always like, I give you a year until you’re directing something, and I’m like, all right, well, that means you got a year to teach me,” she said. “So I don’t know what that looks like personally, but I really enjoyed being a producer.”
Zendaya also mentioned the importance of representation onscreen, telling theTimes, “I enjoy this idea of hopefully one day being able to make the things that I want to see, the roles that I want to see for Black women. That would be exciting and a goal of mine.”
source: people.com
