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Last night, Tom Holland returned to the West End with a headline role in Jamie Lloyd’s Romeo & Juliet. The reviews have so far been positive, though perhaps overshadowed by the fact that Holland a) got a bad boi haircut and b) has been photographed wearing a singlet on stage. The production–which has been in previews for the past fortnight–has precipitated several major roadblocks made up of hundreds of shrieking fans desperate to be cast as the actor’s real-life Juliet for these reasons.
But that is, of course, a mantle already belonging to Zendaya, who last night joined Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, Jeremy O’Harris, Maya Jama and Stormzy to assume the role of supportive girlfriend. The couple were photographed leaving the Duke of York’s theatre hand in hand: him in full-look Prada—a reference perhaps to the costumes Miuccia Prada once designed for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet–while she had been styled in an Elizabethan-inspired dirndl dress (a custom Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood design) embellished with a constellation of “star-crossed” diamantés. (Zendaya’s commitment to Holland is rivaled only by her dedication to method dressing.)
“We were both very, very young, but my career was already kind of going and his changed overnight,” the actress said in last month’s issue of Vogue, reflecting on her early courtship with Holland. “One day you’re a kid and you’re at the pub with your friends, and then the next day you’re Spider-Man. I definitely watched his life kind of change in front of him. But he handled it really beautifully.” As for his turn as Romeo? “I could not be more proud,” she added. “I’m going to try and see as many shows as I possibly can.”