Tom Holland and Zendaya at the premiere of 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' in 2021. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Zendaya is sharing how she knows when someone is “the one,” and addressing the rumors surrounding her and Tom Holland’s it happened/didn’t happen wedding.
While joining the New York Times podcast Modern Love, alongside her The Drama co-star Robert Pattison, the stars discuss the film’s question: “What if you don’t know the person you love as well as you think you do?” and the idea of knowing how a relationship with someone will go early on.
“I think the second you meet somebody, you know which way the relationship is going to go,” Pattinson said. To further clarify he added, “You can have the combination of feeling, you can be very attracted to someone, and also there’s some fear or something at the same time. It’s like, oh, and that could be why you’re attracted to them in the first place. But you know that fear will eventually… they will do something to you.”
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Zendaya said she agreed with that “in some ways” because in her “personal experience, I’ve found that people get nervous around people.” She explained, “But there’s a certain feeling that I was able to experience when I knew this is my person, because I don’t feel nervous around them. I feel really peaceful, and I feel really calm like, oh, I actually feel more nervous when I’m away from you than when I’m with you.”
“We first met in an audition, so I was pretty nervous anyway, but he did make me feel calm,” Zendaya recalled of her Spider-Man audition with Holland.
When asked how he made her feel calm, Zendaya responded, “Just by being a nice person, you know? By making me feel comfortable. I mean, it’s like having to do a chemistry read for a big movie like that. It’s like, oh, you really want the job, and all these kind of things. And yeah, he was really lovely then.”
Holland and Zendaya have co-starred together in three Spider-Man films: Homecoming (2017), Far From Home (2019) and No Way Home (2021). They will return for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, releasing this June.
In Zendaya’s latest film, The Drama, she and Pattinson star as a couple about to get married. However, things take a turn when Zendaya’s character makes a shocking reveal about her past. Given the plot of film, the stars discussed the idea of how much you’d want to know about your partner’s past before marrying them.
“In life, naturally we’re going to grow and we’re going to change. That’s going to happen no matter what. So it’s good to know someone, at least at the core, so that as they grow and as they change, you can be part of that in some way,” Zendaya said.
Then touching on her and Holland’s relationship, Zendaya explained how they established a bond early on given they grew up together.
“I feel like I’m biased because I’ve been able to grow up with the person that I love and get to know them through being literally a teenager to now. So it’s like, of course we’re going to change and we’re going to grow and life is like whatever, but I still feel like there’s a bond or a connection that you feel like you know someone, at least enough to feel safe with them,” she added.
Later on, Zendaya was asked about the speculation that she and Holland are now married. After Zendaya’s stylist Law Roach said “the wedding has already happened” during a red carpet interview, there has been growing interest in whether their wedding did or did not actually happen, with even AI photos circulating online of the couple from their wedding. (Zendaya confirmed the photos were not real.) The actress said that while she understands the interest, she emphasized how they like to maintain a sense of privacy.
“Well, I just feel like, for me, there is a level of a parasocial investment in my personal relationship, which I understand, and I am aware that I’m a public person, and so is he, and I’m also aware that we’ve grown up in front of people, and we’ve done movies where we fall in love with each other. I really do understand that, and I don’t want to dismiss that like ‘stay out of my business’ but in a lot of ways, I also am a very private person, and I try my best to be able to have things for myself and for him as well.
“We do our best in general to not hide ourselves from the world, but just to, I think, preserve things for ourselves so that we can maintain that joy just within ourselves and our loved ones and our family,” she continued. “So that’s kind of like my broad way of just saying, I hear it, but I also like my own little boundaries of what I like to bring up and talk about, but then also what I’m also willing to share.”
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