{"id":527636,"date":"2026-07-15T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527636\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:30:16","slug":"zendayas-three-word-response-ends-tom-hollands-confusion-over-joining-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/527636\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya’s three-word response ends Tom Holland’s confusion over joining ‘The Odyssey’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zendayas<\/p>\n

Zendaya’s three-word response ends Tom Holland’s confusion over joining ‘The Odyssey’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tom Holland was supposedly in a fix when he was offered The Odyssey by Christopher Nolan.<\/p>\n

His reason for concern at the time was a clash of Greek epic with his beloved Spider-Man franchise’s new installment.<\/p>\n

As both films’ shooting schedules tend to overlap.<\/p>\n

This left the British actor seemingly confused. To get clarity, he turned to his partner, Zendaya, who herself ultimately became part of The Odyssey.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, when I got home after our meeting, I sat down with [partner Zendaya] and was like, \u201cI\u2019ve been offered this movie.\u201d And she was like, \u201cBy who?\u201d I was like, \u201cIt\u2019s the big one.\u201d <\/p>\n

He continued, “And then we had Spider-Man that was literally scheduled to go the same day that we would start shooting.”<\/p>\n

Then, Hollan recalled, Zendaya’s three-word response, which cleared her confusion and left him motivated, was, she said, \u201cI\u2019ll leave you if you don\u2019t do The Odyssey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before his mind had gotten crystal clear on hopping on The Odyssey, Holland remembered his initial thought when the film was offered.<\/p>\n

“I remember my brain scrambling when you told me the movie you were going to make, and I hadn\u2019t read it,” he told People.<\/p>\n

“I was searching every corner of my brain for any bit of information to try and make myself look intelligent.”<\/p>\n

The Odyssey is in theatres on July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zendaya’s three-word response ends Tom Holland’s confusion over joining ‘The Odyssey’\u00a0 Tom Holland was supposedly in a fix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-527636","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\/527636","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=527636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}