{"id":2364358,"date":"2026-04-08T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2364358"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:05:37","slug":"unpacking-zendaya-in-the-drama-the-films-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/unpacking-zendaya-in-the-drama-the-films-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Zendaya In &#8216;The Drama&#8217; &#038; The Film&#8217;s Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>This is true. School shooters in the United States are overwhelmingly, almost exclusively, white and male. And the reasons for this are rooted in very serious sociopolitical, patriarchal, and culturally specific issues \u2014 ones that I understand may seem like they are being dismissed with this storyline. But the fact of this plot is that <em>Emma didn\u2019t actually do it. <\/em>It\u2019s also true that Borgli initially wrote Emma as white in his script but as soon as Zendaya was cast, the character and the entire movie changed. For better mostly, and also, considering the discourse, for worse. But I don\u2019t think Zendaya or anyone involved in making this film is naive to the implications that came with her casting. The idea that a biracial Gen Z girl disconnected from her Blackness in a predominantly white town in America grows up being bullied to the point that she becomes radicalized by the internet and unsavory \u201caesthetics\u201d to try to belong isn\u2019t far-fetched to me. The reality of the United States\u2019 gun violence and mass shooting crisis and subsequent refusal to enact legislation to stop these tragedies isn\u2019t inherently funny at all, but it is absurd. And it deserves to be ruthlessly ridiculed and used as fair game for satire. Isn\u2019t that better than pretending the issue doesn\u2019t exist at all? That might sound insensitive coming from a Norwegian director (who has his own <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/drama-director-kristoffer-borglis-age-gap-1236548464\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"inexcusably sketchy past (opens in a new tab)\">inexcusably sketchy past<\/a>) and me, a Canadian, but the film does treat Emma\u2019s reveal seriously.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.refinery29.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is true. School shooters in the United States are overwhelmingly, almost exclusively, white and male. And the reasons for this are rooted in very serious sociopolitical, patriarchal, and culturally specific issues \u2014 ones that I understand may seem like they are being dismissed with this storyline. But the fact of this plot is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2364359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,21912,312171,436337],"class_list":["post-2364358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-latest","tag-unbothered"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Unpacking-Zendaya-In-The-Drama-The-Films-Discourse-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364360,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364358\/revisions\/2364360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}