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  • -"The Greatest Showman," is in theaters December 20th.

  • You were fantastic in the film, as we were just talking about.

  • Congratulations.

  • Just got nominated for three Golden Globes today.

  • [ Cheers and applause ] -Today.

  • -That's a big deal. -It's a big deal.

  • -That's a big deal.

  • I would be scared if I --

  • I know you're not scared

  • because you're young and you don't care about this stuff.

  • But just going up over, probably, I'd say --

  • If I stood on this desk, I'd be frightened,

  • let alone be on a trapeze.

  • Have you -- What was the training like?

  • I mean -- -I mean, okay, so my --

  • our director called me, and he said, "You know, listen --"

  • -He was great, by the way. -So amazing.

  • -And I don't know this director.

  • -So talented. Michael Gracey.

  • -Yeah. -So amazing.

  • He is going to be huge. -Yeah, he was good.

  • -But he called and he said,

  • "Listen, we want to workshop this

  • like a real Broadway production."

  • I'm like, "Cool, that's great."

  • Then he's like, "Also, you might want to start working out,

  • because, um, you have trapeze rehearsals when you get here,

  • and I want to use the stunt double as little as possible."

  • [ Laughter ]

  • So I was like, "Okay."

  • So as soon as I got there,

  • it started building upper-body strength,

  • which I don't have and have not maintained, either.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • So don't ask me to do any trapeze

  • because it's not going to -- I don't have it anymore.

  • -That was a different time. -Different time.

  • It was a different time, but it was a lot of training,

  • a lot of just literally getting up there and just going for it.

  • I remember I had been rehearsing

  • on this specific rig that I was used to.

  • You know, I had become normal with that height difference.

  • And there was a net, and I felt good and comfortable,

  • and I had been doing it for a while.

  • And I was like, "Okay, cool. Like, I'm a trapeze artist now.

  • This is great."

  • And I show up on set, and --

  • Yeah, the rig was like 15 to 20 feet taller.

  • And there was no net.

  • [ Laughter ] -What?

  • -No net. -Oh, no.

  • -Because back in the day, they didn't have those yet.

  • So I was hooked up, so I'm safe, but --

  • -Still -- -Visually, that's a little --

  • That's a lot to get over. You know?

  • -Oh, yeah, yeah. I would say, "Hey, guys, it's called CGI.

  • Look it up." -Right.

  • Take this out. -"Get this net right now.

  • We'll zap it out later, man."

  • Airbrush it out. I don't care what you gotta do.

  • Shoot around it. I need two nets, in fact."

  • Yeah. -Right, right.

  • That was my thought process.

  • And then right as I was going to go up, right,

  • in the cherry picker to go up to the thing,

  • Hugh Jackman walked by, and he goes, "Zendaya,

  • you're badass."

  • And I was like, "Take me up."

  • -[ Laughs ]

  • "Take me up! I can do anything!

  • I can do anything."

  • -Hugh Jackman just called me a badass.

  • -"Hugh Jackman told me I'm a badass.

  • That's all I need to hear, man."

  • You and Zac Efron, we were saying earlier, great chemistry.

  • You guys look like a great team.

  • Like, you could actually go take this on the road.

  • You can actually be in the circus.

  • -But, no, it was great.

  • You know, Zac was such a great partner.

  • We really had to, like -- One of our first kind of

  • "getting to know each other" sessions was like,

  • "Okay, here you go!

  • You know, you're harnessed together. Get up there."

  • And so we really had to quite literally trust each other,

  • because he had to hold my weight, and I had to hold him.

  • You know? So it was just kind of like a great icebreaker.

  • -Yeah, it was, yeah. -You know what I'm saying?

  • Great icebreaker.

  • -Guys, if you want a good first date, just join a circus.

  • And just get in the trapeze together,

  • see if it all works out.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • But you were saying those takes where --

  • 'Cause it's just -- it's gravity.

  • So, I mean --

  • -I mean, yeah.

  • So there's this specific, like, thing we do

  • where, basically, we're holding our own weight,

  • so there's no harnesses in this one, unfortunately.

  • We're holding these two ropes, and we are together,

  • and we swing apart from each other.

  • They lift us off the ground.

  • And, of course, that momentum of us swinging

  • as far as we can go away from each other.

  • We come back together.

  • And, you know, we're supposed to

  • grab on to each other with the other arm

  • and begin, like, this swing, which is in all the posters,

  • and it's beautiful, and that's great.

  • But... [ Laughter ]

  • ...if you don't catch each other...

  • Yeah. -Yeah, yeah.

  • We actually have a little iPhone video clip

  • of you guys working on the scene.

  • Here's Zendaya and Zac Efron. Watch this.

  • ♪♪♪♪

  • Oh! [ Laughs ]

  • Let's do one more take, yeah. How many of those happened?

  • That's not as -- not as romantic.

  • -Yeah.

  • And that's just one of the many that we could choose from.

  • -Yeah. Yeah. -For that specific body slam.

  • -I want to show everyone the real clip.

  • Here's Zendaya and Zac Efron in "The Greatest Showman."

  • Take a look at this.

  • -♪♪ All I want is to fly with you ♪♪

  • ♪♪ All I want is to fall with you ♪♪

  • ♪♪ So just give me all of you ♪♪

  • -♪♪ It feels impossible ♪♪ -♪♪ It's not impossible ♪♪

  • -♪♪ Is it impossible? ♪♪

  • -♪♪ Say that it's possible ♪♪

  • [ Cheers and applause ] -That's how you do it!

  • That is how you do it. Zendaya, everybody!

-"The Greatest Showman," is in theaters December 20th.

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