In desperate times we have always turned to Hollywood to provide us with stars who soothe our troubles. Whether it’s 1930s Busby Berkeley dance routines, early 1980s big-budget adventures, or dotcom crash fantasy spectaculars, we’ve managed to lose ourselves in their dreams. Faced with the current global collapse in everything we care about, it’s easy to look at this current crop of latex-wearing duffers or moody, contemplative angst-mongers and feel we’re being woefully short-changed. But cometh the hour, cometh Zendaya.

The Gen Z multihyphenate – actress/singer/model – is in two of this year’s most talked about films, at least for under 40s. In Dune: Part Two she plays Chani – a warrior who was narrator and love interest for Timothee Chalamet’s hero, Paul Atreides, in Part One, but has become the main character in the sequel.

The Telegraph London