Zendaya and Tom Holland will soon share the screen again — this time in a role outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The couple will team up in Christopher Nolan’s next film, according to Deadline. The outlet reported that the Euphoria star, 28, and Anne Hathaway have both been added to the cast that already includes Holland, also 28, and Matt Damon.
Nolan, 54, will write and direct the movie, which will premiere in theaters and IMAX on July 17, 2026, though plot details have not been released.
Zendaya and Holland met in 2016 while filming Spider-Man: Homecoming and, according to a source, were friends first before things turned romantic. They did not confirm their relationship until 2021.
Zendaya and Tom Holland have kept their romance relatively private, but fans know that the two have a long history. The actors met while working on Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016 and dating rumors quickly followed. However, there wasn’t a direct confirmation of their relationship until July 2021, when they were spotted packing on the PDA […]
“Zendaya and Tom started off as really great friends and stayed that way for a long while before things turned romantic,” the source told Us Weekly shortly after photos of the couple kissing in Los Angeles surfaced for the first time, adding they “work really well together because he makes her laugh and she really helps guide him through the world of celebrity.”
Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Cover Images
They have appeared onscreen together in three Spider-Man movies. With a fourth film to come, Holland revealed in October that the pair read the script together and it was “excellent.” He has said that he will reprise his role as Peter Parker, but Zendaya’s return as MJ has not been confirmed.
“It needs work, but the writers are doing a great job,” he said on the October 17 episode of the “Rich Roll” podcast. “I read it three weeks ago, and it really lit a fire in me. Zendaya and I sat down and read it together, and we at times were bouncing around the living room. Like, this is a real movie worthy of the fans’ respect.”
Making an impression! Ever since Tom Holland and Zendaya met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming, the pair have shared a special connection. Fans quickly started to wonder whether the duo were more than just friends in 2017, but the costars attempted to keep their dating lives private. “We are friends,” Zendaya said in Variety’s […]
This will be Zendaya and Holland’s first Nolan movie each, while Hathaway will pair with the legendary filmmaker for a third time. Hathaway expressed her gratitude to Nolan for casting her in Interstellar despite the online backlash she received at the time for her Oscar win for Les Misérables.
“A lot of people wouldn’t give me roles because they were so concerned about how toxic my identity had become online,” Hathaway told Vanity Fair. “I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I’ve had in one of the best films that I’ve been a part of … And my career did not lose momentum the way it could have if he hadn’t backed me.”
Damon has also worked extensively with Nolan in the past, including alongside Hathaway in Interstellar. He also portrayed General Leslie Groves in Oppenheimer.
