There’s always backlash — and Zendaya is not here for it. In her new movie, Malcolm & Marie, the Euphoria actress, 24, plays John David Washington‘s love interest.
However, the age gap — he is 12 years older than her at 36 — has caused some fans to criticize the casting.“I’ve played a 16-year-old since I was 16,” the former Disney Channel star told E!
News on Wednesday, January 27. “You have to remember, also, people grew up with me as a child. 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.
You know, even though I do play a teenager on television still.”The film is the first feature to be fully written, produced and filmed
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