-"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!
