• Zendaya says she “could have cried” watching fiancé Tom Holland film The Odyssey, though they share no scenes together
• Matt Damon reveals Christopher Nolan called Zendaya’s performance “perfect” — the highest praise he’s ever heard Nolan give
• Damon and Holland spent the rest of production playfully complaining that neither of them ever came close to that level of praise
• Zendaya plays the goddess Athena while juggling Euphoria Season 3 and Dune: Part Three simultaneously
• The Odyssey opens in theaters July 17, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day following on July 31

Zendaya didn’t have a single scene with Tom Holland in The Odyssey — but she was still watching him closely. And what she saw nearly brought her to tears.

“I could have cried, I was so proud,” the actress told ELLE of watching Holland on set of Christopher Nolan’s sweeping adaptation of Homer’s epic. It’s a sweet window into a relationship that’s been playing out in real time for nearly a decade — two people who fell in love on a Marvel set, now watching each other grow into something bigger.

“And then Spider-Man was a dream; I get to go to work every day with my best friend, the person that I love,” she added. “We bring our dogs to work; it’s like a family affair. We grew up on those movies! It’s like coming home.”

Holland and Zendaya first met during a 2016 chemistry read for Spider-Man: Homecoming, where he was cast as Peter Parker and she as Michelle “MJ” Jones-Watson. They went public as a couple in July 2021, got engaged in late 2024, and if you believe Zendaya’s longtime stylist Law Roach — they may have already quietly gotten married. (In March, Zendaya herself fueled the speculation by telling French outlet Views that a “perfect marriage” doesn’t exist.)

The Only Person Who Got a ‘Perfect’ From Christopher Nolan

Here’s the thing about working with Christopher Nolan: the man is not handing out gold stars. Matt Damon, who plays Odysseus in the film, explained the dynamic with characteristic bluntness.

“Chris is known for being very circumspect. So when you do a take, it’s not like he says, ‘That was great.’ He’ll go, ‘Yep, good. Okay.’ And that is the equivalent of the greatest praise you could ever get,” Damon told ELLE. “Zendaya, on the other hand — there were takes where she did one thing, she did this amazing scene, and he said, ‘Cut.’ And then he went, ‘Perfect.'”

The fallout was immediate and, honestly, hilarious.

“And literally, Tom [Holland] and I were obsessed with this. She got a ‘perfect’? I’ve never even gotten a ‘great.’ She got a ‘perfect’? He and I bitched about it for the entire rest of the film. ‘Did you get anything today?’ ‘No, I got a ‘good — moving on.’ ‘Yeah, me too.'”

Damon didn’t hold it against her for long. “So it was this amazing ability she had to come in and really put herself in there and blow everybody away, and then just go back to shooting ‘Euphoria,'” he said.

That detail — going back to shoot Euphoria — is not a throwaway line. Zendaya was running three major productions at once. In her own ELLE cover story interview, she described the logistical reality of it all: “I remember being on set for Euphoria; it was a night shoot at a ranch. I was so tired, but I was also learning my Chakobsa lines for Dune. And then I started writing out my lines to memorize for that quick turnaround trip I was going to make to Iceland for The Odyssey.”

She paused on what was really at stake. “It’s not like I have a lot of lines in The Odyssey, but I was working with Christopher Nolan! The most embarrassing thing in life would be messing up my lines, which did happen once.”

Nolan, for his part, seemed unbothered by any stumbles. “We would be in the maddest, craziest situations, just all of us fighting the elements, tearing our hair out, all these things going on, and she would sort of parachute in from her other job with this sense of true grace and poise,” he said. “I mean, she’s literally playing a goddess; it’s a tall order. She’s a true movie star, but also an incredible actor.”

The Women at the Heart of The Odyssey

Zendaya plays Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, serving as guide and protector to Damon’s Odysseus throughout his journey. It’s a role without a ton of screen time — but clearly one that left a mark on everyone who witnessed it being filmed.

She’s one of four iconic actresses anchoring Nolan’s vision of the women who drive Homer’s story forward. Anne Hathaway plays Penelope, the fiercely loyal queen of Ithaca who spends 20 years fending off over a hundred suitors while her husband is away. “We think about Penelope as a model of patience,” Hathaway said. “But I was interested in the raw edge of her. I was interested in the fury, the emotion, and the passion that she would have had to ride for him for those 20 years.” It’s Hathaway’s third collaboration with Nolan, after The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, and Nolan noted a visible shift in her work: “There’s a maturity to her performances now… Her work has a sense of quiet calm to it that’s really remarkable.”

Lupita Nyong’o takes on a fascinating dual role — both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra — while Charlize Theron plays Calypso, the sea nymph who holds Odysseus captive for seven years. Theron used the character to say something larger: “Even though she’s a goddess, she is really longing for connection… there’s something to be said about women living their lives today in a powerful manner, and yet a lot of our rights are being taken away every single day.”

The four women cover ELLE’s summer 2026 issue, and the film has already sold out multiple opening IMAX 70mm screenings — a full year before its release.

The Odyssey opens July 17. Two weeks later, Holland and Zendaya will be back together on screen where it all started — Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits theaters July 31. Two movies, one summer, one couple. Not a bad coming home.

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• Zendaya’s Rue Bennett survived the polo mallet cliffhanger at the start of Season 3 Episode 6
• Rue talked her way out of being killed by crime lord Alamo Brown by promising to recover his stolen money
• The episode also ends with Rue nearly run off the road and seeing a burning bush — danger isn’t over
• The Season 3 finale will be the longest episode in HBO history, with two episodes still to air
• Fans and analysts are pointing to heavy in-episode foreshadowing that Rue may not survive the season

Rue Bennett is still breathing — but Euphoria isn’t done with her yet.

After one of the most nerve-shredding cliffhangers the HBO drama has ever pulled off, Sunday’s episode — titled “Stand Still and See” — finally answered the question that’s had fans spiraling all week: did Zendaya’s Rue survive being buried neck-deep in the desert while Alamo Brown came galloping toward her on horseback with a polo mallet? She did. Barely.

As Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) thundered toward her, Rue frantically pleaded for her life from that dirt hole, and he narrowly missed her head as he sped by. Not out of mercy — more like a warning. With her neck still above ground and her options completely gone, Rue did the only thing she knows how to do: talk. She told Alamo she could get his money back from Laurie (Martha Kelly), who had robbed him with the help of Faye (Chloe Cherry). Then she got Faye on the phone, devised a plan to get a safe key from Wayne (Toby Wallace), and somehow, against every odd, convinced Alamo to back off.

It’s the kind of survival that feels like borrowed time, and the show knows it.

How Rue Got Here

For anyone who needs a quick catch-up: Season 3 opened with a five-year time jump, finding Rue working as a drug mule for dealer Laurie to pay off old debts. She eventually crosses paths with Alamo — strip club owner, crime kingpin, man with very little patience — and starts running for him instead. By Episode 3, she’s pulled over by DEA officers and, to save herself from federal drug trafficking charges, becomes a confidential informant. The math the DEA laid out wasn’t subtle: 20 years minimum, plus 20 more for every death tied to her supply chain.

Then in Episode 5, one of Alamo’s dancers, Magick (Rosalía), tells him that Rue tried to plant cocaine in her locker. Alamo, already suspicious, intercepts Rue at a restaurant where she’s having dinner with Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie), forces her into a truck, and the next thing she knows, she’s staring at a shovel in the middle of nowhere. G (Marshawn Lynch) tells her to start digging. She digs until the soil hits her neck. When she asks for help out, Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) picks up the shovel and starts filling it back in.

Maddy, meanwhile, is back at the restaurant answering Alamo’s questions about whether she trusts Rue. “I do,” Maddy says. “She’s a little crazy, but she has a good heart.”

It didn’t save her — but it didn’t hurt.

Episode 6 Ends With a New Warning

Surviving Alamo’s test doesn’t mean Rue is in the clear. By the end of Episode 6, she’s nearly run off the road by an unknown vehicle that appears to be targeting her — and after getting out of the car, she sees a burning bush. The episode opened with Rue narrating a series of flashbacks from Alamo’s early life, tracing how his mother’s relationships shaped his deep distrust of women and his ideas about loyalty. It reads like the show giving him dimension before something final happens — in one direction or another.

And then there’s the detail that Bishop told Rue he knows her mother Leslie’s last name. The threat has officially moved off Rue and onto her family.

The Foreshadowing That Has Everyone Talking

Here’s where it gets interesting — and a little unsettling for anyone who doesn’t want to see Rue die before the finale.

Episode 6 contains a scene that’s hard to read as anything other than deliberate. Lexi Howard is talking with her friend Gillie about a writing assignment, and Gillie says, “Why don’t you just kill her character?” Lexi pushes back: “Cause I’m supposed to build her up.” Gillie’s response: “So, build her up to kill her. If someone doesn’t die periodically, people get bored.”

The scene comes directly after Rue walks into a church, reads the Ten Commandments, and calls her mom to say she wants to be forgiven. She also told Jules she wants to start a life — get married, have a family. She told Leslie she’s coming home.

Sam Levinson, the sole credited writer on Euphoria, placed that writers’-room conversation immediately after Rue’s most hopeful, redemptive scene of the season. That’s not an accident. Television has a well-documented structure — popularized on shows like Breaking Bad and The Sopranos — where a character is given a redemption arc, a hopeful beat, and a future-tense declaration right before they’re killed. Rue hit all three in one episode.

The counter-argument is industrial: Zendaya is the lead, an executive producer, and a two-time Emmy winner for this role. Killing the narrator of a series mid-arc is rare. Killing your flagship performer before the finale is rarer still. But television has a long tradition of dead narrators — Sunset Boulevard, American Beauty, The Lovely Bones, Desperate Housewives. A narrator speaking from beyond isn’t a plot hole. It’s a genre move.

Three episodes remain. The Season 3 finale has already been confirmed as the longest episode in HBO history. Two more hours of Euphoria between now and whatever ending Levinson has written for Rue Bennett.

“If someone doesn’t die periodically, people get bored,” Gillie said.

Levinson put that line in the script. He put it right there.

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• Zendaya’s Rue narrowly survives Alamo’s polo mallet attack that closed out Episode 5’s cliffhanger
• Episode 6, titled “Stand Still and See,” explains Alamo’s backstory through Zendaya-narrated flashbacks featuring Danielle Deadwyler as his mother
• Rue’s secret recording of Laurie and Alamo has the feds on her side, clearing her legal troubles — for now
• Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie deletes her OnlyFans for a shot at TV stardom, then receives a severed finger in the mail
• With only two episodes left, the season finale is set to be the longest in HBO history

SPOILER WARNING: Full spoilers ahead for “Stand Still and See,” Season 3 Episode 6 of Euphoria, now streaming on HBO Max.

She’s alive. After one of the most gut-wrenching cliffhangers Euphoria has pulled off in years, Zendaya’s Rue is still standing — though the universe doesn’t seem particularly interested in making things easy for her.

Episode 5 left viewers in full panic mode: Rue buried up to her neck in a ditch, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) bearing down on her with a polo mallet, the screen going dark. For a show that’s been rumored to be in its final season, it felt like a genuine goodbye. It wasn’t. But Episode 6 makes clear the danger is far from over.

How Rue Survived — And What Alamo’s Past Has to Do With It

The answer to Rue’s survival comes wrapped in backstory. The episode opens with Rue narrating a series of flashbacks into Alamo’s childhood — a structural move that echoes the character deep-dives of Euphoria Season 1. “The coldest female Alamo ever knew was his mama,” she tells us, and Danielle Deadwyler plays that mama with full force: a woman trying to raise her son alone while cycling through a string of men she used as lovers and marks. The result was a boy who grew up with deep trust issues toward women and, as Rue puts it in narration, a promise to himself that “for as long as he lived, never again would a bitch outsmart him.”

It’s that psychology — as much as anything else — that shapes his decision to spare Rue. He lets her go. She lives.

And actually, things start looking almost okay for her. The secret recording Rue made of an exchange between drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly) and Alamo has gotten the federal authorities on her side, seemingly clearing her of legal jeopardy. In a rare moment of optimism, Rue muses to herself in voiceover: “Against all odds, life was looking okay. Maybe every mistake I made led me to the right place after all.”

That peace doesn’t last long.

Jules, God, and a Burning Bush

A conversation with Jules that starts flirtatiously — Jules painting on an easel, Rue watching — turns ugly fast when Rue questions Jules’ relationship with her sugar daddy. Jules slaps her across the face. Rue collides with the canvas and collapses under it.

The blow seems to shake something loose in Rue spiritually. She finds herself in a church pew, calling her estranged mother. “I guess I just figured if He exists, then so does redemption,” she says. “If there’s redemption, then there’s salvation. I kind of need that. It’s just — I don’t really want to be stuck with all the mistakes I’ve made.” They end the call peacefully, if not quite healed.

Then, in the episode’s final minutes, an unknown vehicle nearly runs Rue off the road — deliberately, it seems. She escapes the collision, gets out of her car, and sees a burning bush.

The show isn’t being subtle about where its head is at. With two episodes left in what may be the series’ final run, Euphoria is asking big questions about sin, grace, and whether someone like Rue can actually be saved.

Cassie’s Big Break — and a Very Disturbing Package

Meanwhile, Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie is having the week of her life, for better and worse. She gets her star moment on the show-within-the-show L.A. Nights, and it lands. When a flashback to the trauma of her wedding night hits mid-scene, her scene partner improvises with her, turning raw pain into a genuine performance. Sharon Stone, playing the show’s producer, asks Cassie about her background. “I’m a performer that uses my body to tell stories,” Cassie declares.

She is not wrong. The studio quickly discovers her OnlyFans page — a lucrative one — and issues an ultimatum: shut it down or lose the role. Cassie prays about it, calls her estranged husband Nate (Jacob Elordi), and finally hits delete. Her sister Lexi (Maude Apatow), who works on L.A. Nights, doesn’t hide her discomfort with the whole situation, even if she doesn’t push hard against it.

Then a package arrives. Inside: Nate’s finger, sent by whoever he owes money to.

Maddy and Alamo: The Wildcard to Watch

One of the episode’s quieter but most charged threads involves Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Alamo’s ongoing flirtation. With Cassie now off to L.A. Nights, Maddy has shifted her management energy toward Alamo’s dancers — including Rosalía and Anna Van Patten — staging photos that show exactly how sharp her instincts for provocation are. What’s striking is how completely unbothered Maddy is by Alamo’s menace. She doesn’t flinch.

Given everything we’ve just learned about Alamo’s vow never to let a woman outsmart him again, and given how effortlessly Maddy seems to be doing exactly that, it’s a tension the show is clearly saving for the final stretch.

Three episodes down, two to go — and the Euphoria Season 3 finale has already been confirmed as the longest episode in HBO history. Whatever’s coming for Rue, Cassie, Maddy, and Alamo, they’re going out big.

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• Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s A24 film The Drama is now available to rent or buy digitally as of May 5, 2026.
• The film arrived on digital platforms just 32 days after its April 3 theatrical release — well ahead of the typical 45-day window.
• The Drama has crossed $100 million at the worldwide box office, making it only A24’s fifth film ever to hit that milestone.
• The film is expected to land on HBO Max sometime in July or September 2026, per A24’s output deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.
• You can rent for $19.99 or buy for $24.99 on Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

If you missed The Drama in theaters — or you just need to watch it again now that you know what’s actually going on — Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s buzzy A24 film is officially available to watch from your couch. As of May 5, the film is live on digital platforms including Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.

That’s a notably fast turnaround. Studios typically hold films for at least 45 days before releasing them digitally — The Drama made the jump in just 32. And it’s not like the film was struggling at the multiplex. According to Box Office Mojo, the film has earned $46.9 million domestically and $69.7 million internationally, crossing the $100 million worldwide mark. That makes it only the fifth film in A24’s history to hit that milestone in over a decade of operation.

What Is ‘The Drama’ Actually About?

Here’s where things get intentionally vague — and for good reason. The marketing has kept the film’s central secret tightly under wraps, and director Kristoffer Borgli wants to keep it that way. “We want the audience to go through the same experience as the characters in the movie, where they get to be surprised by something,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “So we’re trying to hold that reveal sealed to protect the best experience watching the movie.”

What we can tell you: Zendaya plays Emma and Pattinson plays Charlie, a Boston couple in the final week before their wedding. At a food-and-wine tasting with their best friends Rachel (Alana Haim) and Mike (Mamoudou Athie), the group plays a game where everyone confesses the worst thing they’ve ever done. When Emma takes her turn, what she reveals isn’t just uncomfortable — it throws the entire relationship into question.

Borgli, best known for the 2023 Nicolas Cage film Dream Scenario, described it to THR as “a very chaotic love story” while deliberately avoiding any specific genre label. That’s fair. It’s been marketed as a romantic drama, but the reality is considerably darker and stranger. Think less Four Weddings and a Funeral, more pitch-black dramedy that will have you questioning what you just watched. The film has a 77% critics score and 78% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and New York Post critic Johnny Oleksinski called it “gripping, quite stressfully so” and “sometimes stomach-churning in the topical subjects it touches.”

Mashable’s Kristy Puchko put it well: “Those tired of Hollywood happy endings or whimsical romances might appreciate A24’s latest vision of the rocky road to commitment.” She praised the film’s ambiguity, its hard-hitting ending, and the performances — even while acknowledging it’s not an easy watch. Trigger warnings are worth checking before you dive in.

It’s also worth noting that this is the first of three films Zendaya and Pattinson will appear in together this year, which is a pretty remarkable run for two of the most in-demand actors working right now. The Drama has already outperformed Zendaya’s 2024 hit Challengers at the box office, so the pairing is clearly working.

How to Watch ‘The Drama’ at Home Right Now

You’ve got two options: buy it or rent it. The film is available for $24.99 to purchase or $19.99 to rent across all major digital platforms. If you go the rental route, you’ll have 30 days to start watching, and once you hit play, a 48-hour window kicks in to finish it.

You don’t need an active Amazon Prime subscription to buy or rent through Prime Video — just a free Amazon account will do. The same film is also available on Apple TV and Fandango at Home at identical pricing.

When Will ‘The Drama’ Hit HBO Max?

No official date yet, but the destination is clear. A24 renewed its multi-year output deal with Warner Bros. Discovery in January, locking in HBO Max as the exclusive Pay-1 streaming home for A24 theatrical releases in the U.S. That means The Drama will land there before it goes anywhere else.

Based on how other recent A24 releases have moved, the window is typically three to five months post-theatrical. Marty Supreme, A24’s highest-grossing film of all time, arrived on HBO Max on April 24 — nearly five months after its Christmas Day release. The Smashing Machine made the jump in just over three months. Given that The Drama opened April 3, the smart money is on a July or September 2026 streaming premiere.

HBO Max subscriptions start at $10.99 per month, though an annual plan drops that to $9.17 per month. The Disney+, Hulu, and HBO Max bundle — at $19.99 per month with ads — remains one of the better deals in streaming if you’re not already subscribed.

For now, though, the movie is right there waiting on demand. Go in as blind as possible. That’s the whole point.

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