Zendaya and Tom Holland first met for a Spider-Man: Homecoming audition. The pair seemed to immediately click. Still, Zendaya wondered if their height difference might affect her chance of landing the role of MJ.
Zendaya wondered if her height might be a problem for Tom Holland and ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Zendaya was one of a few actors who hoped to be cast alongside Holland in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming . The superhero film was a bit of a breakthrough for Zendaya, who achieved superstardom through her work with Disney. Before her Marvel and Euphoria days, fans best knew her for the successful but short-lived sitcom Shake It Up.
After the series ended in 2013, she was on the lookout for opportunities to further expand her career. That’s when Homecoming fell in her lap. “I wasn’t supposed to know that it was Spider-Man .
But I have good agents. I found out, and I was like, ‘Hell yeah, I want to be part of that,’” she told Variety in a 2017 interview. Zendaya arrived at her audition without wearing makeup to fit her character’s style.
When she met Holland, however, she revealed they had two different interpretations of their meeting. “He says when we first met, it was super awkward because he went for a handshake, and I went for a hug,” she said. “But I don’t remember that.
I thought it was cool.” What really worried Zendaya during the audition: their height difference. Zendaya is considerably taller than Holland , which she thought might tak.