The actor shared a cheeky comment about his new bride while on The Odyssey<\/a> press tour with costars Matt Damon<\/a>, Anne Hathaway<\/a>, and Robert Pattinson<\/a>. During a “50 Most Searched Questions About <\/a>The Odyssey<\/a>” segment with WIRED, Holland read the question, “Did Athena love Odysseus romantically?”<\/p>\n Zendaya plays Athena in Christopher Nolan’s new epic<\/a>, the divine protector and strategic guide of Damon’s Odysseus, who is trying to return home to his wife, Penelope (Hathaway), and son, Telemachus (Holland), after the Trojan War.<\/p>\n Before any of his castmates could respond to the question about Athena’s feelings for Odysseus, Holland offered up a sweet reply: “No, because she’s married to me.”<\/p>\n “Yep, good answer,” Damon stated, as Hathaway laughed and Pattinson smiled.<\/p>\n Holland and Zendaya secretly tied the knot, he confirmed during an interview with Esquire<\/a> in June. After rumors swirled about their reported nuptials in March, Holland noted in the interview that the couple’s family members weren’t fooled by fake AI wedding photos<\/a> circulating online “because they were all there” for the actual ceremony.<\/p>\n “That’s all you’ll get on that,” he concluded.<\/p>\n Holland and Zendaya went public with their relationship in 2021 after meeting on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming. They became engaged<\/a> in December 2024.<\/p>\n Holland said Zendaya was the one who convinced him to take the role of Telemachus in The Odyssey after she threatened to break up with him if he didn’t.<\/p>\n “We had Spider-Man that was literally scheduled to go the same day that we would start shooting,” Holland explained to PEOPLE<\/a> in an interview with Damon, Hathaway, and Nolan. “Z said, ‘I’ll leave you if you don’t do The Odyssey.'”<\/p>\n “Yes. Well, thank you to her,” Nolan responded, chuckling.<\/p>\n “Here I am,” Holland added.<\/p>\n Tom Holland and Zendaya in 2026 Of their experience being in the movie together, Zendaya said it was “the best kind of surprise.”<\/p>\n “I was already so excited and so full of joy,” she told Entertainment Tonight<\/a> of Holland’s casting. “I couldn’t wait to be able to call him after work and be like, ‘What was it like? Tell me everything!’ You know? So, the dream scenario would be [to] be able to share this with each other and I was lucky that Chris allowed him to come home and tell me that I got the meeting. So, that was special.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yes, Holland was, in fact, the one to tell Zendaya that she was up for the role of Athena \u2014 and eventually nabbed it.<\/p>\n “I freaked out, I was so grateful,” she said on The Tonight Show<\/a>, with host Jimmy Fallon adding of Holland, “I love him so much, he’s a great guy.”<\/p>\n “Me too,” Zendaya shared.<\/p>\n “I know you love him more. You love him more,” Fallon responded, smiling.<\/p>\n The Odyssey is now in theaters.<\/p>\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/c2518c12b132cb4f76aadbd95bfcd54f.jpeg\"\/)
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