Zendaya on the cover of VARIETY for the August 8, 2017 issue.
How Zendaya Fell in Love With Spider-Man and Launched a Movie Career
Bits about Tom:
She had to perform a chemistry read with Tom Holland, aka the new Peter Parker. “He says when we first met it was super awkward because he went for a handshake and I went for a hug,” she says. “But I don’t remember that. I thought it was cool.” She had one concern after walking through the door. “I was worried because he’s so much shorter than me,” she says. “I was like, ‘Damn it! It’s going to be weird because I’m super tall.’ But then we ended up doing the audition sitting. So that was good.”
Zendaya recently had to endure a dangerous chase through the streets of Los Angeles. This wasn’t for a role — an aggressive paparazzo was trailing her after she was spotted in a car with Holland. “We tried to do this whole maneuver,” says Zendaya, who chronicled the experience on Snapchat. “This guy was being super dangerous, driving through a busy intersection, doing a U-turn, driving on the side of the freeway to catch up to us — the side where you’re not supposed to drive because there’s no lane. I was like, ‘This is nuts.’”
There have been tabloid reports that she and Holland are an item, which she dismisses as a rumor. “We are friends.” So there’s no romance? “No,” she says firmly. “He’s a great dude. He’s literally one of my best friends. This past how many months we’ve had to do press tours together. There’s very few people that will understand what that’s like at 20 years old.”
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