Did Fans Already Figure Out the Big Twist in Zendaya’s The Drama?
The Drama’s first trailer teases a bombshell secret Zendaya’s Emma has kept from Robert Pattinson’s Charlie — and fans are convinced a recent social post already spoiled the twist.
The first trailer for The Drama is here, and it does exactly what you want from a wedding thriller: dangles a secret and refuses to spill it. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are the couple at the center of it, and yes, the internet already thinks it knows the twist.
The setup
A24 is positioning The Drama as a romance that detonates right before the vows. Zendaya plays Emma, Robert Pattinson is Charlie, and their very pretty, very happy engagement starts to wobble when a big thing Emma has been keeping to herself comes to light. The trailer keeps the what under wraps, but the vibe is clear: this is a beautiful day headed straight for a ditch.
What fans think the twist is
People are spitballing the usual possibilities, plus one theory that is exploding thanks to a resurfaced Reddit saga from a few years back. The original author’s account has since been deleted, but the post has lived on through reposts and compilations.
"I stalked my husband for two years before I formally met him"
That story, initially shared three years ago by a now-deleted user going by u/Hot_Relation899, claims a woman first noticed a guy during freshman year, then tracked him obsessively. She engineered a series of totally-not-coincidences so they would “naturally” cross paths, eventually met him for real in junior year, and later followed his career to the same city. They reconnected there, started dating, got married, and years later she confessed how much of their meet-cute she had stage-managed. He felt blindsided and filed for divorce.
Fans think The Drama might be tapping that flavor of reveal. Or not. To be clear, nothing in the trailer confirms this, and neither A24 nor writer-director Kristoffer Borgli has said a word about it. It’s just the theory of the week, and it’s a juicy one.
- Theories in circulation: a past affair, a criminal record, something taboo, or the Reddit-style orchestrated meet-cute that wasn’t so cute
Release details
The Drama is written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli and opens in theaters on April 3, 2026.