Marisa Tomei is a proud aunt on and off-screen. The Spider-Man: No Way Home actress recalled having a front-row seat to the blossoming romance between her on-screen nephew Tom Holland and Zendaya while making the Marvel Cinematic Universe trilogy. And it just happened to be her favorite part of the experience.
“I think some of the favorite things were really just watching Tom and Zendaya grow up and watching them fall in love ...
and seeing their phenomenal talent,” Tomei responded when asked her favorite memory about working on the Spider-Man movies during a panel at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto on Sunday, August 25. “Just being, like, blown away from the get-go,” the actress continued to gush over the young stars. “Some people are just meant for it, and they are meant for it.
” Tomei, 59, Holland, 28, and Zendaya, 27, costarred in the MCU’s three Spider-Man movies released between 2017 and 2021. They include Spider-Man: Homecoming , Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home . Holland played the famous web-slinger and his alter ego, Peter Parker, while Tomei played Peter’s Aunt May.
Zendaya played Peter’s love interest, Michelle “MJ” Jones. “They carry enormous, enormous star power, enormous power, and they manage to be real people at the same time and just multitalented,” Tomei continued to praise the actors. “They can do everything.
They sing, they dance, they act, they do stunts, they design fashion. I mean, what are they not doing? Th.