When Zendaya's name rang out as the winner of the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award for her performance in HBO's
Euphoria during the Emmy Awards broadcast this past September, audiences were treated to Zoom-like reaction shots from her fellow nominees before the screen landed on the 24-year-old actress, the youngest recipient of that award in Emmys history. "This is pretty crazy—I don't really cry," the Lancôme ambassador said then, brushing aside the bangs of her expertly tousled updo and dabbing a smoky black-lined eye. Behind her sat her family and team, screaming joyfully. Zendaya recalls the moment fondly when her friend Timothée Chalamet calls from France for an exclusive interview with ELLE—although she laughingly admits she worried her family's long celebration might cue the dreaded awards-show cutoff music.
Zendaya and Chalamet became close on the set of
Dune, a feature film adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about a feudal intergalactic empire of the distant future. (The movie, which was originally slated to be released this month, was bumped to 2021 due to COVID-19.) In the film, Zendaya's character, Chani, a warrior from the planet Arrakis, is initially wary of Chalamet's Paul Atreides, the heir to an aristocratic family who's been tasked with taking over her home planet, but the two eventually form a tight bond. Even though the book was published in 1965 and the film shot in pre-pandemic 2019, audiences may notice parallels to our current reality—Arrakis's harsh climate and giant sandworms, perhaps, versus our own smoke-clogged orange skies and "murder hornets." Zendaya can't predict what viewers will take away from the film, or even what the world will look like tomorrow, but she remains optimistic. She closed out her Emmy acceptance speech acknowledging that while
Euphoria, with its gritty depictions of teen sex, drugs, and trauma, might not always be a shining example, "there is hope in the young people."
Read more about what makes Zendaya hopeful—and the wild dance parties she hosted in her room for the cast of
Dune—in her conversation with Chalamet.
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