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Like Elmo and Elvis and Oprah, our first guest is one of few entertainers who needs only a first name. Her new movie with Robert Patson opens in theaters April 3rd. It's called The Drama. Please welcome Zendaya.
Zendaya joins Jimmy Kimmel to promote 'The Drama' with Robert Pattinson, discussing his 'lying' habit, favorite films, and a viral AI wedding photo hoax with Tom Holland.
Key Takeaways
- Zendaya promotes 'The Drama' with Robert Pattinson, opening in theaters April 3rd.
- Viral AI wedding photos of Zendaya and Tom Holland circulated widely and fooled many people, though she confirms the shared footage is real.
- The interview is playful and promotional, with banter about Pattinson's storytelling habits.
- Zendaya has a personal connection to Christopher Nolan and Denis Villeneuve films.
What the video covers
- Zendaya is introduced as the first guest to promote her new film 'The Drama' with Robert Pattinson, opening April 3rd.
- Zendaya and Pattinson were surprise presenters at the Oscars, where she presented the Best Director award.
- Zendaya jokingly describes Pattinson as a habitual liar who tells made-up stories on television, while she herself is unsure when he is telling the truth.
- Zendaya reveals she watched Twilight for the first time before filming 'The Drama' with Pattinson, and notes they have worked together on three films: The Drama, Dune, and Odyssey.
- Zendaya names Interstellar (which she wrote her high school final report on) and Prisoners as favorite films she makes friends watch.
- She describes crashing a morning wedding at a Las Vegas chapel as a surprise promotional stunt for the film, which the couple welcomed.
- The conversation addresses viral AI-generated wedding photos of Zendaya and Tom Holland that fooled many people.
- Zendaya shares a behind-the-scenes video showing real footage resembling a film scene, confirming it was not AI-generated.
- The segment includes a discussion of a Newberry Street event and a playful exchange about a film scene involving a feeding-tube-style prop.
- The interview is a light promotional segment blending humor, fan questions, and movie promotion.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and The Drama promotion
- 00:53Oscars surprise presenting and Pattinson's storytelling
- 02:34Pattinson's liar reputation and working together
- 04:54Favorite films: Interstellar and Prisoners
- 06:26Surprise Las Vegas wedding stunt
- 07:27Viral AI wedding photos with Tom Holland
- 10:45Real behind-the-scenes video reveal
- 15:00Closing segments and wrap-up
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Speaker A
How are you? You look great. Thank you. But that dress seems dangerous to me.
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It's, I don't like that. It's, you want to step on it or, well, it's got a thing coming off your neck. It really is. You've got to be so careful for some drama?
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Yeah. How are you? I saw you backstage at the Oscars last night. Yeah. And do you remember our encounter with, I did. Well, we, we kept it for the stage.
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Yeah. We said, "Oh, you know what? I'll mention that I saw you last night when you walk out." Exactly. And that was, and here we are.
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End of the conversation right there. You and your co-star in the movie, Robert Pattinson, were surprise presenters, right?
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Yes. Yes. Nobody knew you were going to be there. You presented Best Director. Yes.
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Yeah. Which is a good one to present. It's a great one. Yeah. I was wondering, and I was curious to see who was going to read the name on the card, because Robert, and I'm sure you know this, but he's a liar. He lies.
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And I don't mean that in a negative way. No, he chooses to. He chooses to lie.
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Yes. He has oftentimes told me stories that I just... Has he really? Yeah. He's told me stories on television that he later told me he just made up because he didn't have anything else to say, and then it follows him around, and
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people will ask him about these crazy stories that he can't keep up with, and he can't remember these lies.
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I know. You know what's so funny? So the first time we kind of hung out when we were preparing for The Drama, that was one of the first things he said to me. He was like, "Yeah, you used to be a
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pathological liar." And I was like, "Are you being serious or are you lying?"
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I can't tell. I can't ever tell, because, you know, he's... Have you noticed that he kind of laughs with everything that he says? Like, whether he's joking or being serious, he's always laughing.
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So I never know quite when he's telling the truth or not. And if a pathological liar tells you he's a pathological liar, do you know what I'm saying? It's diabolical. It really, really is.
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Or is he lying? I don't know. You know, he's going to be on this week. I'll maybe we'll hook him up or something to see if he's telling us the truth.
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I'm starting, I'm feeling like I'm starting to understand the Robert... Are you... Yeah, I think I'm cracking.
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Explain it to me, because he's coming. I don't... It takes time. It does. You know what I mean? We've done a few movies together this year.
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How many movies have you guys done together? Technically, it's three. Oh, wow. Three movies together. Okay.
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I know. We never worked together before, and then we did The Drama, and then Dune and Odyssey. So it's, it's pretty cool.
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Was the first movie Twilight, like the first time you ever saw him in anything? Do you know what's funny? I actually haven't told him this, but I watched Twilight for the first time right before we shot our movie,
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because I felt like I needed to do a little re-search. Interesting. Because you seem like you would be, right about Twilight.
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I was. I was, but for some reason I just hadn't seen it.
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Wow. So that was my introduction to Robert Pattinson. What's your, like, all-time favorite movie? What's the movie that you've seen the most times?
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Do you know what? And this is what's so special, and so, I'm so grateful for, is one of my favorite movies. I did my high school final report on Interstellar.
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Yeah. Christopher Nolan. Oh, Christopher Nolan. And then another one of my favorites is Prisoners by Denis Villeneuve. So it's the fact that, yes, the fact that I get to work with these people still blows my mind,
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because I'm such a fan, and those are two movies that when people come to my house, I'm like, we're watching these movies.
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Oh, you do? You show? It's like required watching. Have they most of them seen it already, or are you making them watch it again?
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No, they will have not seen it already. But even if they have, we can watch it again.
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Tom Holland, did you show him Interstellar? He had seen it before, but we have watched it again. You watch it, and do you understand what's happening in that movie?
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Very well. Because you wrote a paper about it. Are you sure you understand? Oh, I'm very sure that I understand. I'm one of the few people.
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What I don't understand about that movie, maybe you can help me. Why would they put Matt Damon in it?
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Like, when you could have him out of it and not in it, to choose to have him in it seems like, I don't know. It seems weird.
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On Saturday you crashed a wedding in Las Vegas, one of those, uh, chapels, wedding chapels. I think... Oh, yeah. We have a photograph here. Now, these people had no idea that you were going to show up.
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They didn't. I mean, they did sign up to get married at the Drama Wedding Chapel, which was a thing.
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I see. Oh, movie. Yes. It was for the film. So they did actually sign up to do this, which is really cool. But they did not know that I was going to be there. So I got to surprise them. Thankfully, they were
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happy about the surprise. I was like, "Do you imagine?" You open, like, "What are you doing here, girl?" But no, it went well, and based on your time with them, do you think they're going to make it,
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you know? I mean, I sure hope so. I sure hope so. Young love, you know what I mean?
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Because you never know. What night was this? What night was this? This was in the morning.
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Oh, but yes. See, now, a morning wedding in Las Vegas, we're getting crazy. It's shaky to start with.
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Now, I know that the Drama is a lot of the stories about an engagement and a wedding. And I'm just being really careful because I don't want to say anything that will ruin the movie.
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But I'm sure you know the internet has gone berserk with stories that you might actually be married, really, to Tom.
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There are, to the point where, and this is one of those things that I don't really understand. People make these AI wedding photos that look very realistic.
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Yes. Of you guys together. Yeah. And many people have been fooled by them, while I was just out and about in real life and people were like, "Oh my god, your wedding photos are gorgeous." And I was like, "Babe,
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they're AI. They're not real. So crazy. They're not real." Was anyone in your life fooled by them in your real life?
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Yes. Many people. And mad that they weren't invited? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, you brought a video along. I did that. I'm not sure what should I say about this video before we see it? Well, I just, you know, a little something to
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just clear the confusion. And this is not something you've shared anywhere. No, no, no, no. This is the first time sharing.
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Okay. All right. Well, let's take a look. All right. Let's bring in Mom and Dad.
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Yes. Everyone to scoot in. Get close. Now, yeah. And a lot of it somewhat closely resembles a scene in the film.
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Yeah, but it was. Yeah, it was a beautiful day, and it almost would seem as if somebody just crudely pasted Tom's head over Robert's head.
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No, that was real footage. Okay, so just to be clear, that was not AI.
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No, that was real. That was real. I was there. All right. Wow. There you go. We got a real scoop here on the show. Zendaya is with us. Her movie is called The Drama.
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We'll be right back. I did. I said, if everyone knows he's a piece of... Why are we doing a retrospective in the first place? It's so incredibly irresponsible. No one ever cares until it's too late. And then
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it always ends up backfiring on me. Emma, I'm being serious. It's not funny. No, I agree with you. This is not funny at all.
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It's very serious. You're laughing. That is Robert Patterson and Za in the drama which opens theaters on April 3rd. Um boy, you might be the only person who has panced both Batman and Spider-Man.
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Iconic. It's miraculous. You um uh now that scene feels like uh it's like a romantic comedy but uh the movie is very different. There's drama in the drama. There is a lot of drama and I'm being careful because I know
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that something happens in the movie that's important to the movie and I don't want to ruin it. So, I'll let you ruin it for others.
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No, no, no, no. That's the thing. I think you know what's what's difficult about even talking about the movie is there is so many different genres and I think it's it it is a romantic comedy in many ways but it's also a drama but it's
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also I mean pe everybody has their own kind of feelings leaving the theater especially with the big twist and there's so many conversations that are had after you watch it and it's just one of those things like I really hope that
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people don't spoil it for each other so they're allowed to go into it just unknowing and really experience the drama see it Without revealing anything, I could see this movie causing a lot of problems for a lot of people.
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Yeah. Yeah. Very possible in their li in their personal lives. Yes. Those conversations can go many ways.
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Yes. Yes. There's also a surprising amount of vomiting in the film by you. Is that what you And Rob look for? And Rob too. You do you look for that in a part? Is that something that Absolutely. Absolutely. Um no. It's
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what's so funny is like um when we're shooting those scenes, so you have like a tube that like is connected to a like a a pump situation.
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And what's in the pump? Uh vomit or fake vomit. Fake vomit which was for my character because my character is supposed to be having like just drinking. Um it was like fruit juice but then kind of they added
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something to make it kind of like jelly gelatinousy. Yeah, it wasn't great. Um, but yeah, so you have a tube and then it kind of goes into your mouth and you have to bite on this thing and then
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someone else is controlling when the vomit comes out. Right. Exactly. So, how do I cue the vomit if I can't control when it's supposed to happen? Right.
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So, me and the special effects guy, we really had to lock in. And I was like, "Yo." Okay. So, what's going to happen is when I put my hand up like this and I go, that's when you know, hit the valve.
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And then we got it. One could argue though that vomit doesn't cooperate in that way with the human body. Vomit comes when it comes out.
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Yes. But I have to act as though it's coming out. I mean, and it just comes out. I have to You feel it coming. You know what I mean?
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So, I have to, you know, Merryill Streep can vomit on command. She's one of her gifts. She just That's why she's She can do it anywhere at any time.
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I I need to work on my craft. You filmed this movie, the drama in Boston.
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Yeah. And this is so good. Oh, this is a real thing that happened on our local ABC affiliate in Boston. So, you were out walking around with your mom right?
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And it was one of those things on like Newberry Street. Okay. And the news just is somebody's like, "Yeah, Newberry. Love it." People in town. And well, take a w look for Zenaia and her mom here. Newberry Street opening to pedestrians today for
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the open Newberry holiday stroll. Boston Mayor Michelle Woo says she hopes bringing this back will help encourage people to shop local this winter. The street will open back up again next Sunday, December 8th.
Speaker A
It's a lot of fun, but it really it was a chilly day to be out there shopping.
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Yeah, you really had to bundle up. Good day for hot cocoa. You know, everything would be nice and cozy.
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Was it a good day FOR HOT COCOA? I WAS, you know, just I was just hanging out. My mom is going to hate that. SHE'S GOING TO BE LIKE, "WHY AM I ON TV?" UM, but yeah, it was so rand.
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It became like a thing. Yeah, that's funny. Now, listen. I know I don't know if you're going to think more or less of me for asking this question. Probably less.
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Okay. Have you seen Spider-Man? I don't mean the guy. I mean the movie. I've seen a little something.
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You have? I have. Have you seen a literally a little something or the whole something?
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A a good amount of something. A good amount of something. And I feel very good about it.
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You feel very good about it. Okay. And that comes out in July? Yes. Yes. Right. you can say I'm I mean honestly it's been like it's it's such a um it's such a huge part of of our story obviously and we grew up
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making those films and it's such a privilege to be able to do them and I know Tom cares so much about the role and doing it just he's the best Spider-Man ever yeah there's no question I'm biased but yes and um
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how many villains are in the film and he's really done a great job you know I can't say that you can't say that do you vomit in the movie a little bit.
Speaker A
You know, I can't say that. You just have to wait and see. Well, it's great to see you. The movie is called The Drama. It opens in theaters April 3rd. Zenaia, everybody.
Speaker A
Thank you, Zena. We'll be back with Rock.
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