Tom Holland Talks His "Sacred" Relationship With Zendaya

Tom Holland will ever person our hearts for this performance.

Six years aft his iconic show of Rihanna's "Umbrella" on Lip Sync Battle—which saw him alteration into the popular prima and showcase immoderate genuinely awesome choreography—the 27-year-old is opening up astir its lasting legacy.

"I'm arrogant of it," helium told The Hollywood Reporter in a June 14 interview. "I similar that it near a lasting impact. It was an astonishing time."

For the battle, which saw him look disconnected against Spider-Man: Homecoming costar and aboriginal woman Zendaya, Tom pulled disconnected a now-infamous fake out, taking the signifier successful a suit and fedora arsenic the archetypal fewer bars of "Singin' successful the Rain" played. The euphony past chopped to the Rihanna deed arsenic Tom reappeared, donning a achromatic corset, food nets, achromatic vinyl shorts and a achromatic bob wig. 

The show came astatine a major transitional signifier successful the then-20-year-old's life.

"My beingness was changing earlier my eyes," Tom continued. "Spider-Man was coming out. I was connected the up. I was getting offers and turning them down for the archetypal time, which was truly crazy. I was gathering producers and directors and going to L.A. by myself. I was yet astatine that signifier wherever I could say, ‘Can I bring my friends?' And they'd say, ‘Yeah.'"

But arsenic iconic arsenic the show was, the Uncharted actor says the days of taking the signifier for these more trivial endeavors are down him.

"You'd ne'er drawback maine doing that now," helium admitted. "Just due to the fact that I don't privation to bash a f--king TV amusement that I don't request to do. I'd alternatively spell and play play and unrecorded my small backstage life."

Yet with each his large blockbuster triumphs, Tom noted it's his "Umbrella" performance that lingers for fans. "I've truly worked hard successful my career, and I've truly been calculated successful deciding what it is I bash and erstwhile I bash it," helium joked. "And for each the movies that I'm incredibly arrogant of, the Lip Sync Battle is what I get the astir compliments for."

And though Tom ended up beating Zendaya successful their 2017 articulator syncing showdown, it intelligibly didn't impact their aboriginal narration arsenic the Spider-Man costars person been romantically linked since 2021. However, don't expect them to remark connected their backstage beingness unneurotic excessively often.

"Our narration is thing that we are incredibly protective of and we privation to support arsenic ineffable arsenic possible," Tom explained successful the THR screen story. "We don't deliberation that we beryllium it to anyone, it's our thing, and it has thing to bash with our careers."