While hundreds of photographs may be used to depict Zendaya’s career, she has an unusual ability to make the most recent one the most memorable. The capacity to make an entrance, to compel a gasp, appears to be something she was born with; nonetheless, it is something she has developed. To see her — Emmy winner, Instagram centurion, and fashion icon (overused but accurate) — on a red carpet is to see the newly 25-year-old at the pinnacle of her power, an influence Zendaya wields more casually on set, driving herself and arriving in sweatpants and a baggy T-shirt. Giving people what they want — and how! — and then purposefully receding into work and a very private existence requires a certain amount of confidence and power.

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