Zendaya plays Athena, goddess of weaving, in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. At home, she and Tom Holland crochet together.

Athena invented weaving. She taught it to mortal women. The loom is her symbol across every surviving Greek source, sitting alongside the spear and the owl as the three things that define her.

Zendaya was cast as Athena in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, releasing July 17, 2026, opposite Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, and Robert Pattinson as Antinous. Holland plays Telemachus, her on-screen charge in the original poem.

The crochet detail came out at the second annual Bero Padel Classic on April 29. Bero is Holland’s non-alcoholic beer brand, launched after he stopped drinking. Crochet, by his own description, is one of the things that resets him. “I have to be lasered in.”

Tom Daley, the British Olympic diver who became internet-famous for knitting in the stands at the Tokyo Games, made him the spider-web can holder by hand.

A few weeks earlier, Zendaya appeared on the New York Times’ Modern Love podcast and described meeting Holland at the 2017 screen test for Spider-Man: Homecoming. “I knew this is my person because I don’t feel nervous around them. I feel really peaceful. I actually feel more nervous when I’m away from you than when I’m with you.”

Their engagement was confirmed in January 2025. In March, Zendaya’s stylist Law Roach told a red carpet reporter at the Actor Awards that “the wedding has already happened. You missed it.” Neither Holland nor Zendaya has confirmed it. During the press tour for The Drama, Zendaya wore something old (the Vivienne Westwood she first wore to the 2015 Oscars), something new (white Louis Vuitton in Paris), something borrowed (a black Armani Privé originally cut for Cate Blanchett), and something blue (electric Schiaparelli in New York).

In a few weeks, she’ll be on screen as the goddess who taught women to weave. At home, her newlywed phase is all about crafting.