all thought it was boring but I was glued to the stage and I realised at a young age that that was what I wanted to do with my life. Q: So Zendaya, we hear you used to have quite a successful modelling career in your early teens. Why did you give it all up? Zendaya: I did enjoy modelling, I was living in San Francisco and I did a lot for Macys and Gymboree. It was great fun and that is how I got started but I always knew I wanted to do more than just modelling. Q: You're from Oakland originally, how did you manage to get to your auditions and castings? My dad took a sabbatical from his job as a PE teacher to help me with my career, and we started commuting to Los Angeles for castings and auditions. We were driving back and forth from my home in Oakland to LA every week. It was six hours drives all the time. They would call us at 4pm and say they needed me by 9am the next day so we would pack our bags and just go. Q: Did you easily adjust to the fast pace of your new life on-the-move? Zendaya: It was tough. But after a year it really paid off when I got the role of Rocky in Shake It Up at the age of 13. That was my big break. I still miss my mum, I don't get to see my family