The 27-year-old Emmy-winning actress, who got her start in show business on Disney's 'Shake It Up', also admits in a new interview that she wishes she went to school.
- Apr 10, 2024
AceShowbiz - Zendaya Coleman has opened up about being her family's "breadwinner" since an early age. The "Euphoria" star admitted in a new interview that she has "complicated feelings" about having to work since she was younger.
"I don't know how much of a choice I had," the 27-year-old told Vogue and British Vogue for the magazines' shared May cover profile. "I have complicated feelings about kids and fame and being in the public eye, or being a child actor."
"We've seen a lot of cases of it being detrimental," Zendaya, who got her start in show business on Disney's "Shake It Up", added. "I think only now, as an adult, am I starting to go, Oh, okay, wait a minute: I've only ever done what I've known, and this is all I've known."
Zendaya went on to confess that she feels as if she's "almost going through my angsty teenager phase now, because I didn't really have the time to do it before." She further explained, "I felt like I was thrust into a very adult position: I was becoming the breadwinner of my family very early, and there was a lot of role-reversal happening, and just kind of becoming grown, really."
The "Spider-Man: Homecoming" actress also divulged that she felt like she needed to be "this perfect being, and be everything that everyone needs me to be, and live up to all these expectations." The Emmy winner then elaborated, "Now, when I have these moments in my career - like, my first time leading a film that's actually going to be in a theater - I feel like I shrink, and I can't enjoy all the things that are happening to me."
"I'm very tense, and I think that I carry that from being a kid and never really having an opportunity to just try s**t," she stated. "And I wish I went to school."
Zendaya is starring as Tashi, who's in her early 30s, in the upcoming sports/romance movie "Challengers" Now in the interview with Vogue, she explained how it differed from her past roles. "I'm always in a high school somewhere," she said. "And, mind you, I never went to high school."
