Zendaya and Tom Holland addressed constant chatter about their height difference and the absurd notion that kissing must be ‘difficult’ for the pair on Friday.
The romantic couple and Spider-Man co-stars appeared on SiriusXM Town Hall where they had a discussion about ‘ridiculous’ stereotypes for tall women and short men.
Holland, who is 5ft8in, and Zendaya, who is 5ft10in, spoke in-depth about the gendered construct of height in real life and as it relates to the movie, maintaining above all that it shouldn’t be a ‘thing.’
The on and offscreen couple were joined by their co-star Jacob Batalon as they sat down with host Jessica Shaw at the New York based studio.
‘Zendaya. I wanted to ask. And actually, and Tom, I wanted to ask you guys because in the first, in, in Far from Home when MJ and Peter kiss and Zendaya, you’re taller than Tom and it became this, this thing,’ Shaw said as the pair laughed.
Holland, 25, humorously interjected: ‘Not that much taller. Let’s just, let’s put this out there. Maybe like an inch or two at best.
‘It’s not like, people say like— “how did you guys kiss? It must have been soo difficult”,’ he recalled which drew a laugh from Zendaya.
Shaw clarified that she thinks the gendered view of height in society is both ‘misogynistic’ and ‘problematic’ and asked them to weigh in on the ‘assumption’ that men should be taller than women.
Zendaya, 25, agreed that it was a ‘screwed up’ mentality. ‘Yeah, this is normal too,’ the 5ft10in beauty said of her being taller than Tom, which he agreed with: ‘Yeah it’s a stupid assumption.’
‘My mom is taller than my dad. My mom is taller than everyone,’ the Euphoria star went on to say, while Holland called the whole subject ‘ridiculous.’
