Inside Zendaya and Tom Holland's wonderful love story

This is most likely the case.

Even better, though, the split opened the door for his best friend and partner to step up and prove himself.

“With anyone you’re with,” Zendaya said to Cardi B“you have to have a layer of respect, courtesy, understanding and tolerance. It's also important to have someone who makes you laugh. If someone can't make me laugh, then that's crazy. And not just kind of laugh, but I pee my pants.”

She expanded on what she appreciated in a person in February 2021, about five months before she and Holland (whose father is a comedian, FWIW) went public.

“'Kindness' is not the best way to describe it,” said the Dune star said Vanity Fair“but some people are just good people, and you can just feel it.” Ultimately, she concluded, “There's this little spark that they have, or this special little thing that they have, that makes you feel safe and happy with them. I don't know what that it is, but some people have it, and it's special.'”