Tom Holland shared his plans to expand his family with Zendaya before reports confirmed the couple’s engagement.
“When I have kids, you will not see me in movies anymore,” Holland, 28, told Men’s Health in an interview published on Thursday, January 2. “Golf and dad. And I will just disappear off the face of the earth.”
Holland mentioned Zendaya, 28, when asked why the pair don’t make red carpet appearances together, to which he replied, “Because it’s not my moment, it’s her moment, and if we go together, it’s about us.”
Days later, Zendaya sparked engagement speculation when she attended the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 5. The actress, who was nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, walked the red carpet solo while wearing a custom Louis Vuitton gown and Bulgari jewelry.
Zendaya notably rocked a diamond ring on her left hand, which fans on social media pointed out wasn’t part of a Bulgari collection, hinting it as a personal piece of jewelry. Us Weekly reached out to her rep for comment after TMZ and People reported that the pair were engaged.
Holland and Zendaya sparked romance rumors after working together on 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. After several years of denying the speculation, the costars went public in 2021 and have gone on to offer rare glimpses into their relationship.
“I can’t not be a person and live my life and love the person I love. But also, I do have control over what I choose to share,” Zendaya told Elle in August 2023. “It’s about protecting the peace and letting things be your own but also not being afraid to exist. You can’t hide. That’s not fun, either. I am navigating it more than ever now.”
Holland, meanwhile, called it “nerve-wracking” having aspects of his love life in the public eye.
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“It means that if you are dating someone, you have to be really conscious of their feelings, because if something does happen between the two of you, it’s not just happening between the two of you, it’s happening in front of the entire world,” he told British GQ in 2021. And it can be very complicated. It’s one of the things I worry about most, of all the things in my career.”
At the time, Holland admitted he was looking forward to having kids, telling People, “I’ve spent the last six years being so focused on my career. I want to take a break and focus on starting a family and figuring out what I want to do outside of this world.”
Holland previously stepped away from acting after his role on Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room.
“I’m no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action-movie thing. But the mental aspect, it really beat me up and it took a long time for me to recover afterwards, to sort of get back to reality,” he explained to Entertainment Weekly in May 2023. “I was seeing myself in him, but in my personal life. I remember having a bit of a meltdown at home and thinking, like, ‘I’m going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.’ And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to. … It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.”
The break turned into a year-long hiatus from Hollywood.
“I’m no stranger to hard work, I’ve always lived by this idea that hard work is good work. I really enjoyed it but then again, the show did break me,” he noted to Extra TV at the time. “There did come a time when I was sort of, ‘I need to have a break.’ I disappeared. I went to Mexico for a week and had some time on a beach and lay low. And I’m now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was.”
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