{"id":526871,"date":"2026-07-15T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526871\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T06:35:07","slug":"zendaya-admits-she-cheated-before-landing-role-in-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526871\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya admits she ‘cheated’ before landing role in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zendaya<\/p>\n

Zendaya admits she ‘cheated’ before landing role in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’<\/p>\n

Zendaya was over the moon when she got to know that she had been cast as the Greek goddess Athena in Sir Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.<\/p>\n

But before her starring in the Greek epic film, the Euphoria actress revealed that she \u201ckind of cheated a little bit\u201d as she already had the script of her husband, Tom Holland, who was already on board as Odysseus\u2019 son Telemachus.<\/p>\n

Zendaya told E News at the film’s New York premiere on July 14, \u201cTom had the script at home before I got the call. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I did a little peeky peek.\u201d<\/p>\n

After giving The Odyssey script, which is a reimagining of Homer\u2019s ancient Greek poem, a good read, Zendaya found it \u201cextraordinary\u201d and \u201cso moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

She gushed, \u201cYou would think a piece of literature like this is almost impossible to adapt but if there’s anyone who can do it, it’s Mr. Nolan.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s how she got the insights before she was offered the role of Athena.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey also stars Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Matt Damon as Odysseus, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Robert Pattinson as Antinous and Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy.<\/p>\n

The film is all set to hit theaters across the USA and the UK on July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zendaya admits she ‘cheated’ before landing role in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Zendaya was over the moon when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-526871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}