Luca Guadagnino’s latest film ‘Challengers‘ is making headlines for several reasons. The film has stormed to the top of the U.S. box office charts and has impressed audiences with its storytelling. Amid all the hype about the film, one particular scene involving Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist’s characters in the film enjoying churros has gone viral on social media.
During a recent interview with Capital FM, the actors opened up about their experiences filming the movie. In fact, in an interesting revelation, the actors said that the churro scene was not planned but rather improvised by the two actors.
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‘Challengers’ Stars Reveal The Churros Scene Was Improvised
In ‘Challengers’, there’s a scene where Josh O’Connor’s character played by Patrick visits his girlfriend Tashi played by Zendaya at Stanford, but first decides to catch up with his best friend Art played by Mike Faist. As the two sit in a cafeteria, things get interesting, and the internet is digging it.
all these men do are eat churro, be bisexual and lie
— caitee ✭ challengers era (@faistfilm) April 28, 2024
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“What I will say is…that was my first churro and I hadn’t eaten anything that day,” O’Connor said. “So I was starving and tasted my first churro – and churros are extraordinary. So I ate my one and then I ate his [pointing to Faist],” he added.
Zendaya then pointed out that the churro scene wasn’t scripted. “The churro was something that you guys found right, with Luca?” she questioned. The actors agreed as they spoke about the dynamic Patrick and Art share both on and off-screen.
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In a previous interview with USA Today, the actors spoke about how they improvised the scene. “It’s like a game of tennis – we’re just giving each other something to play with,” Faist said, highlighting the playful yet competitive rapport between the characters.
“So when Josh is holding that churro right to my mouth, it’s so obviously there that I’m going to take a bite of his churro,” Faist said as he laughed. “But that’s the great thing about working with Josh: He tees you up for something and I hit the ball back,” he added.
Delving deeper into the scene’s significance, the director of the film Luca Guadagnino also described the complexities of Patrick and Art’s relationship. He described it as a “constant battle” with both of them having feelings of jealousy and longing, layered with care and intimacy.
“When the sugar goes on the cheek of Patrick, Art takes it off with his hand in a very nice gesture of kindness and very intimate I would say,” Guadagnino said. “But at the same time, they are really like tense. And I think it’s about being jealous of one another but at the same time, wanting one another that we’re trying to play out and that Josh and Mike do in a beautiful way in the sequence.”
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