The actor, 24, opened about the transition in an interview using British GQ on Friday, February 26.
“Talking to Zendaya’s helped me a lot, really,” he shared. “I’d like to encounter sometimes as a small d–k for fans, mainly as I was always so amazed that they’d want a photograph with me or touch or whatever. I would have a typical Londoner reaction, one of instant suspicion:’Why are you talking to me?'”
Holland noted,”Zendaya seen this and told me that this sort of reaction was going to be more aggro than just smiling and taking the picture. She totally altered the way I’m able to become more comfortable in public.”
The Avengers: Endgame star still has his struggles, however. Specifically in regards to sharing his intimate life publicly.
“It is very stressful. It means that if you are dating someone, you have to be aware of their feelings, since if something does occur between the two of you, it is not only happening between the two of you, it’s happening in front of the whole world,” he informed British GQ. “And it can be very complicated. It is one of the things that I worry about most, of all the things in my career.”
The Onward celebrity said that reuniting with Zendaya, 24, for Spider-Man: No Way Home has been a lot of”fun.”
Holland gushed,”It is so fun being back together with them, particularly as Zendaya and I’m going through similar things in our career, having taken on more adult characters to now return to Spider-Man. I am rather proud of what she has accomplished with Euphoria and also Malcolm & Marie.”
In addition to the alterations they made off screen, the England native and Shake up it alum had to make tweaks for their own performances on-camera. “I had to lift up my voice a couple of octaves higher and we both had to go back to playing these innocent, magical teenagers again,” Holland revealed.
While he spilled those details, Holland was tight-lipped about potential cameos in Marvel’s forthcoming Spider-Man movie. Earlier this month he told Variety the studio hadn’t told him if Tobey Maguire or Andrew Garfield — both of whom played with the web-slinger in prior movies — might appear in Spider-Man 3.
“I met Andrew once, I met with him at the BAFTAs. He was lovely. He was a very nice bloke and we had a wonderful chat. It was very soon after Spider-Man: Homecoming had come outside. He was really nice and positive,” that the Cherry actor recalled, adding that he’s”bumped into Tobey a few times at different parties in L.A.”
He added:”If they are [making cameos], they have not told me yet. That’s something Marvel would do. ‘So, that is who that tennis ball was'”
Maguire, 45, emerged in Spider-Man at 2002. Garfield, 37, took over in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, returning for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014.
