Inside Zendaya and Tom Holland’s Marvelous Love Story

That is most likely the case.

Better yet, though, the split paved the way for her best friend and costar to swoop in and prove himself.

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

She expanded upon what she valued in a person in February 2021, about five months before she and Holland (whose father is a stand-up comedian, FWIW) went public.

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