Zendaya Suffered Heatstroke on Dune 2 Set, Refused to Drink Water

Zendaya revealed in a new interview with W Magazine that she suffered a heatstroke on the set of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” because she stopped drinking water on the film’s very hot Jordan desert set. Why? “I had such a fear of peeing myself or shitting myself, honestly, in the suit on set,” she explained. The suit she’s referring to is the body armor worn by the Fremen warriors in the movie to help them survive the brutal conditions of the desert.

“We were in Jordan. It was very hot, and I remember thinking, ‘Oh, man, the bathrooms are so far away,’ because we had to hike to the locations,” Zendaya said. “If you have to pee, you need at least 10 minutes to get out of the costumes. I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t want to drink too much water.’ I had such a fear of peeing myself or shitting myself, honestly, in the suit on set. One day, I didn’t drink enough and I had a heatstroke. I felt so barfy. I remember calling my mom on the bathroom floor, saying, ‘I feel terrible.’ She was like, ‘Did you drink water today?’ I said no. I thought I was being smart, but you can’t do that. So, lesson learned.”

The heatstroke incident was a one-time issue for Zendaya, who said she was able to withstand the weight of her “Dune” costume because she was in peak physical fitness going into “Part Two” filming as she had just wrapped production on “Challengers.” Zendaya plays a tennis phenom in that movie.

“What was so great is I had been training with the boys on ‘Challengers’ every day and was in the best shape that I had been in a really long time,” Zendaya said. “For ‘Dune,’ the costumes were very heavy and restrictive. The first few weeks, your body’s quite sore. When I was walking through the sand every day, my butt looked great. So that worked out! I was prepared.”

Zendaya starred as Chani in both “Dune” movies and has already expressed interest in making a…