Zendaya is supporting her leading man, Tom Holland . A video of Zendaya, 27, arriving at Holland's Romeo & Juliet opening night performance has gone viral on X (formerly Twitter). The new vision of Shakespeare's tale is directed by Jamie Lloyd and stars Holland, 27, as Romeo and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as Juliet.
In the clip, Zendaya stuns in a sparkling, Vivienne Westwood black gown with her blonde hair in a bun as she quietly enters London's Duke of York's Theatre to cheer on her boyfriend. After the show ended, Holland and Amewudah-Rivers embraced on stage before bowing to a standing ovation and applause from the audience, as seen in another video on X. Zendaya was likely clapping the loudest.
Holland and Zendaya were then seen leaving together holding hands. Also in attendance was actor Tom Hiddleston with his fiance , Zawe Ashton. The Romeo & Juliet cast also includes Freema Agyeman (nurse), Michael Balogun (friar), Tomiwa Edun (Capulet), Mia Jerome (Montague), Daniel Quinn-Toye (Count Paris) and Ray Sesay (Tybalt).
Shortly after the initial cast announcement, Amewudah-Rivers was bombarded with "deplorable racial abuse" over her role. "Following the announcement of our Romeo & Juliet cast, there has been a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company. THIS MUST STOP," a statement made by Lloyd in April read.
"We are working with a remarkable group of artists. We insist that they are free to create work without facing online harassm.
