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- Zendaya said she was afraid of having bad breath during her audition for Dune with Timothy Shalame.
- According to the star of “Euphoria” at that time, she had just taken out her wisdom teeth.
- “My biggest fear was that my mouth would suck,” Zendaya told W magazine.
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Zendaya revealed that during her audition at Dune with Timothy Shalame, she was horrified that her breath would be “vile.”
“They just took my sages out,” Zendaya told W Magazine in a new interview published Thursday. “My biggest fear was that my mouth would be disgusting and then I would have to do a scene with Timothy where we have to be really close and he would smell my possible dry breath.
In the end, as W noted, Zendaya’s audition went smoothly, and she continued to play Chani against Paul Atrides of Shalame in the science fiction epic.
The Euphoria star previously spoke about the incident during an October interview with Chalamet on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, when he revealed that she had just taken out her sages before going to a chemistry reading with Little Women. “. “an actor she had never met before.
“I was nervous,” Zendaya told Colbert.
“I was afraid I would get dry contact,” she continued. “It was my biggest fear is that if I get this thing for a dry nest, what if I have that horrible breath and I come to the meeting and we have these intimate scenes between Channy and Paul … and my breath is just stinky.”
“But that didn’t happen, and here we are,” Zendaya concluded.
Based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel of the same name, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune follows young nobleman Paul (Shalame) as he leaves his home planet of Kaladan to travel to the harsh desert world of Arakis with his family.
But after the tragedy befell the Atris House of Arakis, Paul was left to fight his fate and seek help from local free people, including Chani (Zendaya).
Dune is currently available for streaming on HBO Max.