#zdy is a superstar fashion wise but unfortunately she’s pretty limited as an actress and when she’s matched up

[roobylavender]

kinda need to know your thoughts on Challengers if you ever plan to see it (strongly recommending in theatre) bc it legitimately left me dizzy and it’s so fun to dissect

i thought it was okay. my primary gripe was the fact that tashi felt comparatively underdeveloped as a character and that was further exacerbated by the fact that zdy was the weakest actor among the leads. one mutual brought up the fact that in a way the obscurity and one-note nature of her character is the point because she’s an exemplary of the tennis wife and her purpose is to be volleyed back and forth between art and patrick but to me that metaphor would have been more potent had she actually felt like a character who had some semblance of a life to lose in the first place. yes the loss of her tennis career was obv devastating but when the crux of that loss rested on her inability to viscerally connect to others on the court i think there should have been more emphasis on what that experience used to be like for her prior. the scene on the beach where she explains what tennis means to her is delivered so deadpan by zdy that it effectively had no impact for me. instead the first scene where i actually felt like i understood what tashi was so desperately searching for was the last one in the movie lol