‘I’m Locked Up’: Tom Holland talks about being ‘in love’ with Zendaya

As happy as can be. Tom Holland gave a sweet update on his relationship with Zendaya while making fun of his dating game skills.

“I’m locked up, so I’m happy and in love. So I don’t need rizz,” the said Avengers: endgame star, 27, said of his romance with the Euphoria actress, 26, on Wednesday, June 14 video interview of Buzz feed.

The couple first met while working on 2017’s Spider Man: Coming Home, starring Holland as the film’s titular superhero and Zendaya as Michelle Jones-Watson, aka MJ. Just as their onscreen characters started to fall in love, the pair caught feelings in real life and seemingly confirmed their romance in July 2021 after being spotted kissing in a car in Los Angeles.

Holland went on to share that he needs his romantic partners “to really fall in love with me, to make it work”, noting that the easiest way to do this is to “make a movie with each other”, just like he and the former Disney Channel star did. “It definitely helps when the characters you play fall in love with each other,” he explained. “You can blur the lines a little bit.”

Outside of movie making, the Not charted actor joked that he has “no rizz at all”, referring to the slang term short for charisma.

The Captain America: Civil War star also revealed that Zendaya sends him memes “non-stop” via Instagram. “I can’t keep up because I delete my Instagram for days at a time,” Holland explains. “I’ll download it to post and then I’ll have to check my messages, and I’ll have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of things from her. And I’m trying to keep up, but it’s intense.”

Earlier this month, the Cherry actor praised his girlfriend for being patient with him while filming his new Apple TV+ series The crowded room, since his character, Danny Sullivan, has long, dark locks. “I had the bangs. Bless Zendaya, she had a lot to put up with, while I looked like this for 10 months, it was tough,” Holland shared radio times.

On June 1, Zendaya celebrated her boyfriend’s birthday by posting photos of the Chaos walking star via her Instagram Story. The couple also made a rare public appearance together during an April Guard concert in vegas. “If I tell you we barely had a voice at the end of this,” she captioned an Instagram Story video at the time. “Childhood dreams come true, going to a @usher concert.”

That same month, the Impossible actor and Zendaya both attended the opening of India’s Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center, though they walked the red carpet separately.

The duo’s low-key romance looks set to turn into something serious, as a source told exclusively Us weekly in November 2022 that they are “both in settling mode and definitely making plans for a real future together”.