First things first: Zendaya is not talking about that gold band on her ring finger. In a new feature in ELLE, the Euphoria actress politely declined to comment on reports that she and her partner of more than four years, actor Tom Holland, secretly got married earlier this year. “No, I’m not going to do that. They’re always searching for something,” she answered, seemingly referring to internet sleuths.
What she was happy to talk about, though, was the two blockbuster collaborations they have on tap for this summer. Though she told the mag she didn’t share any scenes with Holland on director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey — in which she plays goddess of war Athena — she said she reveled in watching the British actor portray Telemachus, Odysseus’s son in the film due out on July 17.
“I could have cried, I was so proud,” she said of Holland’s work in the sprawling epic that also features Robert Pattinson, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal and Mia Goth, among others. They did, however, work on camera in Spider-Man: Brand New Day (July 31), the third film in the series they’ve starred in together. “And then Spider-Man was a dream; I get to go to work every day with my best friend, the person that I love,” she said. “We bring our dogs to work; it’s like a family affair. We grew up on those movies! It’s like coming home.”
Odyssey star Matt Damon had high praise for Z’s work on the epic film from the director he said is not known for gushing about a good take. “Zendaya, on the other hand — there were takes where she did one thing, she did this amazing scene, and he [Nolan] said, ‘Cut.’ And then he went, ‘Perfect,” Damon said. “And literally, Tom [Holland] and I were obsessed with this. She got a ‘perfect’? I’ve never even gotten a ‘great.’ She got a ‘perfect’? He and I b–ched about it for the entire rest of the film. ‘Did you get anything today?’ ‘No, I got a “good”—moving on.’ ‘Yeah, me too.’”
