She still wasn’t convinced she’d get the job. “I was like, ‘Damn it! It’s going to be weird because I’m super tall.’ But then we ended up doing the audition sitting. “I was worried because he’s so much shorter than me,” she says. I thought it was cool.” She had one concern after walking through the door. “He says when we first met it was super awkward because he went for a handshake and I went for a hug,” she says. She had to perform a chemistry read with Tom Holland, aka the new Peter Parker. “When I was 15, I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup in school,” she explains. I found out, and I was like, ‘Hell yeah, I want to be part of that.’” She didn’t wear any makeup to her audition to connect with her character’s age. “I wasn’t supposed to know that it was ‘Spider-Man.’ But I have good agents. “Everything was super secretive,” she says. When she submitted herself on tape last year, Zendaya received only vague instructions.
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“I’m so happy I got to put her in my movie early, before she becomes the biggest actress in Hollywood,” says “Homecoming” director Jon Watts. And this winter, she’ll bolster her screen credits by playing a trapeze artist in “The Greatest Showman,” the Oscar-bait musical starring Hugh Jackman.
Although her role as Michelle isn’t large, she stuck the landing, as a math-team nerd who is more concerned about activism than boys. She found it with “ Spider-Man: Homecoming,” the Sony Pictures tentpole that has grossed more than $630 million worldwide, proving that Zendaya is the rare child actress with crossover appeal.
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