Zendaya and Hailey Gates in The Drama (2026)

Talk about polarizing. This film’s reviews ran the full gamut. The Metacritic reviewers ranged from 0 (Boston Globe) to 100 (The Times).

The controversy came over the film’s central premise. In a confession session where everyone tells the worst thing they ever did, the would-be bride confesses something so horrible that it might not be forgivable, causing her fiance and everyone else there to reconsider every feeling they ever had for her. The film asks us to consider exactly how big is the human capacity for forgiveness, and how much we can trust that somebody who was a monster can completely change?

I won’t tell you want the secret was. It can easily be found online. Certain groups objected to the film because the bride who makes the confession is a sympathetic character, and thus her horrifying behavior tends to be normalized.

Zendaya plays the woman with the shocking secret.

Hailey Gates is somebody who provides a sympathetic ear for the groom. More than an ear.

But there’s no real nudity.

It’s not clear to me, but I think Zendaya was wearing a thong in that very brief flash.

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