Zendaya Says She’s Grown Up Enough To Play John David Washington’s Girlfriend In “Malcolm & Marie”

Earlier this month, Netflix dropped the trailer for their film Malcolm & Marie, starring 24-year-old Zendaya and 36-year-old John David Washington. We can’t be certain how everyone responded to that trailer. Maybe some people came away from it feeling deeply lazy for not being nearly as productive in quarantine as Zedaya and John had been. Others possibly thought, “Shoot, what was the fake cigarette budget on this movie?” (there’s a lot of smoking). But it sounds like there was a bunch of people who got outraged over Disney Channel kid star Zendaya kissing, smoking, swearing, and appearing in various states of underwear-wearing. Because apparently there are people out there who refuse to accept that Zendaya isn’t a 14-year-old girl on a Disney sitcom anymore. Zendaya has a message for those people, and it’s that she’s absolutely grown-up enough to be kissing, smoking, swearing, and getting romantic on-screen with an adult like John David Washington.

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