Zendaya & Zac Efron Body Slammed Each Other While Trying To Film The 'Greatest Showman' Trapeze Scene

By now, you’ve probably seen that scene in The Greatest Showman where Zendaya and Zac Efron fly towards each other on ropes and twirl around in the most majestic way.

What you don’t know is that it took a big effort to make it look that flawless.

During her appearance on The Tonight Show this week, Zendaya explained how the first takes of the scene ended up with her and Zac body slamming each other.

“We’re holding these two ropes and we’re together and then we swing apart from each other, they lift us off the ground, and of course that momentum of us swinging as far as we can go away from each other – we come back together and we’re supposed to grab on to each other with the other arm and we’re supposed to begin this swing… that’s really beautiful,” Zendaya said, describing the physical aspects of the stunt.

“But if you don’t catch each other �” she trails off, clapping her two hands together. Watch the video of the moment below!

The Greatest Showman hits theaters on Wednesday, December 20th.