Zendaya is sort of well-known for her dancing expertise, but she misplaced the dance actuality present Dancing With the Stars greater than a decade in the past. Talking to W Journal, the Challengers actress revealed that she nonetheless harbors animosity over that loss.
When the interviewer claimed that she and her dance accomplice Val Chmerkovskiy ought to have gained the last word title, Zendaya agreed and mentioned, “Hear, I am nonetheless harboring slightly animosity about that.”
The Dune actress was 16 years previous when she appeared within the ABC dance competitors when she was on the peak of her fame starring in Disney Channel exhibits like Shake It Up and Okay.C. Undercover. Being a younger star, she took that loss to her coronary heart. “I felt that loss. I used to be solely 16 years previous, and it was extremely tense,” she recalled. “Being on stay tv each week? It is so scary.”
Looking back, the Euphoria actress wished her youthful self would have had a extra carefree strategy in the direction of the present. She recalled taking the competitors too critically at occasions that she wished she hadn’t. “I want I’d loved it slightly bit extra. However I used to be stressing myself out. I actually went by means of it on that,” she added.
The actress carried out a number of types on the present together with her accomplice and danced the amba, freestyle, and jive within the particular two-night finale of the present in 2013. Regardless of receiving good scores from the complete choose’s panel, they had been positioned second. American Idol alum Kellie Pickler and her accomplice Derek Hough had been topped winners.
In an October episode of Leisure Weekly’s The Awardist podcast, Zendaya admitted that she by no means was a fan of the present and didn’t watch it till she was part of it. “I do not assume I used to be the goal demographic,” she mentioned then.
The actress revealed that her grandma was a daily viewer of the present earlier than and after she joined the competitors. As for Zendaya herself, she discovered the entire present a bit too “tense” to look at even after her season was wrapped.