My Best Friend, the Person That I Love

Zendaya isn’t one to talk much about her relationship with maybe-husband Tom Holland, but she reveals a glimpse of her love for him in the new issue of Elle magazine.

In the last year or so, they shot “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” together as well as Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.”

However, they didn’t share any scenes together in “The Odyssey,” so Zendaya watched Holland work from the sidelines. “I could have cried, I was so proud,” she says in the new issue of Elle magazine. “And then ‘Spider-Man’ was a dream; I get to go to work every day with my best friend, the person that I love. We bring our dogs to work; it’s like a family affair. We grew up on those movies! It’s like coming home.”

As for those marriage rumors, Zendaya once again declined to confirm she and Holland are hitched. “No, I’m not going to do that,” she told Elle writer Alexis Okeowo.

Zendaya has been on the road so much lately, there’s only one way her family can keep track of her. They have her location on their phones: “It’s just easier — ‘Oh, she’s not responding because she’s in Budapest.’ So they know where I am, and what time zone.”

She proved how busy and all over the world she has been by recalling shooting the third season of “Euphoria.”

“I remember being on set for ‘Euphoria’; it was a night shoot at a ranch. I was so tired, but I was also learning my Chakobsa lines for ‘Dune.’ And then I started writing out my lines to memorize for that quick turnaround trip I was going to make to Iceland [for ‘The Odyssey’],” Zendaya said. “It’s not like I have a lot of lines in ‘The Odyssey,’ but I was working with Christopher Nolan! The most embarrassing thing in life would be messing up my lines, which did happen once.”

Not that it bothered the director. “We would be in the maddest, craziest situations, just all of us fighting the elements, tearing our hair out, all these things going on, and she would sort of parachute in from her other job with this sense of true grace and poise,” Nolan told Elle.

Nolan said he cast Zendaya because of that “iconic” grace. “I mean, she’s literally playing a goddess [Athena]; it’s a tall order,” he said. “She’s a true movie star, but also an incredible actor.”

Co-stars Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus, and Holland, who plays Telemachus, got a bit jealous of Nolan’s praise of Zendaya’s work.

“Chris is known for being very circumspect. So when you do a take, it’s not like he says, ‘That was great.’ He’ll go, ‘Yep, good. Okay.’ And that is the equivalent of the greatest praise you could ever get,” Damon said. “Zendaya, on the other hand—there were takes where she did one thing, she did this amazing scene, and he said, ‘Cut.’ And then he went, ‘Perfect.’ 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 bitched about it for the entire rest of the film. ‘Did you get anything today?’ ‘No, I got a “good”—moving on.’ ‘Yeah, me too.’”