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Speaker 1: Great to flick with benohe.

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Speaker 2: Ben, Yes, I am Ben, good morning, and it's a game,

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Speaker 2: set and match. Talking about the new film Challengers tennis

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Speaker 2: theme with the superstar Zendaya, who's so hot right now

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Speaker 2: from the Spider Man movies, from Euphoria from June. She's

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Speaker 2: doing it all at the moment and now she's playing tennis.

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Speaker 2: She's bloody good at it too. And the film is

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Speaker 2: a cracker. So it comes from Luca Guardanino, an Italian

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Speaker 2: director who like his thing is, I guess, making movies

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Speaker 2: that make the audience feel a little bit uncomfortable. So

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Speaker 2: he made Call Me by Your Name starring Timidate Charama

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Speaker 2: Armie Hammer, which was which was sort of an underage

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Speaker 2: gay romance tale. And then he made Call Me by

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Speaker 2: Your Name with an actual cannibal. He had Timidation Sally

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Speaker 2: if you Know you Know, with which also starred Timotha

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Speaker 2: Shallamy as a sort of a sexy cannibal, like actual

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Speaker 2: cannibalism in the film, and it was. It was an

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Speaker 2: incredible film, but really polarized audiences. In comparison to those

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Speaker 2: two movies, Challengers is by far his most accessible mainstream audience,

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Speaker 2: but because he is a little bit left of center,

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Speaker 2: it's still you know, it's going to be a little

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Speaker 2: bit weird him, It's still him. It's still definitely him.

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Speaker 2: And so basically it is the story of these three

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Speaker 2: tennis prodigies who get to know each other as teenagers.

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Speaker 2: Zendeia's character Tashi Duncan, who's going to be the next

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Speaker 2: big thing in women's tennis, Alah sort of a Serena Williams,

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Speaker 2: and then her career is cut short by a horrific

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Speaker 2: knee injury, can never play again. And then you've got

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Speaker 2: these two fellas played by Mike Feist from West Side

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Speaker 2: Story and Josh O'Connor, who was Prince Charles in The Crown.

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Speaker 2: And so they they are doubles, doubles partners, Cain the Wambiens,

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Speaker 2: they're the Woodies. Basically, they won the teen US Open,

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Speaker 2: and then they meet Zendaia's character and they both fall

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Speaker 2: for her, and that sort of starts this sort of

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Speaker 2: decades long love triangle, and the film starts at the

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Speaker 2: end really where we find that Tashi has married Mike

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Speaker 2: Feist's character Art Donaldson. Art Donaldson has gone on to

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Speaker 2: become this incredible men's tennis player, he's won Grand Slams

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Speaker 2: and now he's at the end of his career. He's

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Speaker 2: got one more US Open left in him, and Tashi

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Speaker 2: is trying to live vicariously through him because her career

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Speaker 2: was cut short. She's his coach, and she realizes he's

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Speaker 2: struggling for motivation. It kind of honestly disgusts her a

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Speaker 2: little bit because she's thinking, if this was me, I

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Speaker 2: would be loving it. I wouldn't be blowing this chance

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Speaker 2: because she's like this uber competitor, and so she enters

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Speaker 2: him into a challenger tournament, which is like a low

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Speaker 2: grade tennis tournament, playing against nobodies to try and boost

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Speaker 2: his confidence before the US Open. It's a bit like

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Speaker 2: what Bernard Tomic's doing at the moment. Sorry, exactly. The

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Speaker 2: only thing this particular tournament isn't completely filled with nobodies.

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Speaker 2: There's one somebody. It's Art's former double partner, Patrick, who

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Speaker 2: also happens to be Tashi's former lover, and so the

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Speaker 2: film is basically about the final match of this tournament,

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Speaker 2: Art versus Patrick, with Tashi sitting on the sidelines, and

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Speaker 2: there's a lot going on here, and as the game unfolds,

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Speaker 2: Luca Guardanino. The director flashes back in time over the

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Speaker 2: previous thirteen years to individual moments that shaped this love triangle,

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Speaker 2: the drama, the soap opera, and there's intrigue, there's betrayal,

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Speaker 2: there's passion. The trailer for this film broke the internet

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Speaker 2: last year, if you remember, because it showed them as

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Speaker 2: teenagers in a hotel room seemingly about to bark on

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Speaker 2: a menajatois, which is not a tennis term, and code

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Speaker 2: violation exactly, double fault and so and so you straight

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Speaker 2: away get the get the idea that there's a there's

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Speaker 2: there's a lot going on here, a lot of emotion

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Speaker 2: that needs to be unpacked, and the tennis itself is

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Speaker 2: really quite interestingly shot. Mike feist Art Donaldson character is

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Speaker 2: the only one who went into this project as a

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Speaker 2: tennis player. He's actually an extremely good tennis player. The

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Speaker 2: other two never played tennis to to save their lives,

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Speaker 2: and the director, Luca didn't even know what the lines

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Speaker 2: on the court meant. And so despite all of that,

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Speaker 2: the tennis scenes are actually or is it real? But

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Speaker 2: it's it's real, It's all real, and it's it's set

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Speaker 2: to a driving techno soundtrack All the Tennis is that's

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Speaker 2: been created by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails and

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Speaker 2: Atticus Ross. That was kind of film scoring duo who've

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Speaker 2: won Oscars. They're just like the guys at the moment

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Speaker 2: in Hollywood to make the score of the film if

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Speaker 2: you can't get Hans Zimmer and So the film is

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Speaker 2: a little camp, it's melodramatic. It won't be to everybody's tastes.

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Speaker 2: If you're going in there expecting a traditional sports movie,

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Speaker 2: that's not going to happen like. It doesn't give you

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Speaker 2: the big grand stand finish. No, but gosh, it's good.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the most enjoyable films you'll see this year.

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Speaker 2: I'm struggling to think of any other big tennis movie

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Speaker 2: that's ever.

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Speaker 1: Well, there was match, There's ever been a really a

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Speaker 1: few low long whiles. But yeah, they do like to

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Speaker 1: make a tennis movie, and I've always enjoyed them. For

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Speaker 1: some reason, they're just I don't know, maybe it's because

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Speaker 1: tennis is less violent sports or something. It's pretty much

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Speaker 1: not violent at all most of the time. All right, So,

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Speaker 1: oh Wimbledon with Kirston Dance, Yes, of course, that.

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Speaker 2: Was one about Mace and oone beyond Borg a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago. I think Emma Stone, who does she play?

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Speaker 2: Did she play Chrissy Evidence? She plays the one we're

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Speaker 2: going to remember. So this is the one.

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Speaker 1: This is the one we're going to remember. And how

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Speaker 1: many new balls please are you giving it?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give this one four and a half.

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Speaker 2: Who yep, this is this is a smash. It's a

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Speaker 2: nice game, set match. Wow, fantastic guys.

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Speaker 1: The look we promised Snowboard