Zendaya is addressing some backlash regarding her new movie. While promoting her Netflix movie Malcolm & Marie, the 24-year-old Emmy winner addressed the age gap between she and co-star John David Washington.
If you didn’t know, there is a 12-year age difference between Zendaya and the 36-year-old actor. For Zendaya, she believes it’s because people are still fixated on the fact that “I’ve played a 16-year-old since I was 16.” “You have to remember, also, people grew up with me as a child,” Zendaya shared with E!’s Daily Pop. “It’s like watching, I guess, your younger sibling now, you know, they’re grown…So it’s hard for people to wrap around the idea that I am grown in real life.
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