The American actor, involved in the love triangle of the film «Challengers» — together with Zendaya and Josh O’Connor — has attracted the attention of the fashion system.
Tennis player Art Donaldson from «Challengers» has attracted attention from all over the world alongside Zendaya and Josh O’Connor in Luca Guadagnino ‘s latest film . Born in 1992, American by origin, crystal blue eyes, blond hair and a milky complexion. It goes without saying that actor Mike Faist after the success of the film Challengers is a performer to keep an eye on and of course the fashion system has already thought of him. In the first row at the Loewe fashion show and already the protagonist of covers of independent magazines, the actor is already under the spotlight of the fashion system. Some experts compare him to Adam Driver or Thomas Brodie-Sangster, but one thing is certain, Mike Faist began his rise after Luca Guadagnino’s film officially attracting worldwide attention. Although his latest role saw him in the role of a professional tennis player, Mike Faist has talked about his difficulties with this sport revealing that his training for the film was one of the most difficult parts. Despite their aversion to sports, co-stars Zendaya and Josh O’Connor actually revealed that Mike Faist was the better tennis player of the trio.
His vocation for acting came as a child, and watching old MGM films, he was struck by the figure of Gene Kelly for whom he had done everything he could to get his parents to enroll him in dance and theater courses in Ohio. In fact, scrolling through his acting career, Mike Faist begins with musical theater acting on Broadway in «Newsies» in 2012 and in «Dear Evan Hansen» in 2017 for which he was nominated for a Tony Award as best supporting actor.
His film debut came in 2021 with the TV series «Panic» and the film directed by Steven Spielberg entitled «West Side Story», a film adaptation of the musical of the same name for which he received BAFTA nominations. And after » Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game» where he plays the role of the journalist protagonist of the comedy and the crime drama «The Bikeriders» came the call from Luca Guadagnino to take part in the cast of «Challengers».