Former Disney Channel Executive Says Zendaya Auditioned “Many Times” For ‘Descendants’

[queenursula]

Former Disney Channel Executive Says Zendaya Auditioned "Many Times" For 'Descendants': "It Ended Up Not Going Her Way" https://t.co/lVoAqPanlh
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 31, 2024
Former Vice President of Casting and Talent Relations at the children’s network Cornelia Frame revealed that the Euphoria star wanted to be part of the franchise

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[damaliaraya]

Whew, she had angels on her side keeping her away from that franchise and nudging her on to bigger and better things, clearly.

[buries]

Descendents is fun, but god was looking down on Zendaya that year.

[thebadunkadunk]

She would have been fun but it would have pegged her more as a Disney girl

[pikapika217]

IA

[pikapika217]

I am SO curious about this. I can only guess she was trying for Mal? And that would have made for an interesting symmetry with her and Sarah Jeffrey's Audrey but if I had to guess I would say that maybe they didn't want to add the element of race to this 'children of people living on a prison garbage dump get the opportunity to not be their criminal parents' movie in the way casting a very visible obviously black woman would have went. The main cast was diverse (Sofia is Latina, Cameron is half black, Booboo is several cultures) but none of them are one visible ethnicity, if that makes sense.

[zibbydoo324]

Y’all fucked upppppp