Spider-Man producers had 'no idea who' Zendaya was before she was cast in ... trends now
When 19-year-old Zendaya Coleman walked into her screen test for Spider-Man: Homecoming back in March 2016 with no make-up on, producers had no idea who she was before they cast her as awkward and intellectual teen Michelle Jones-Watson aka MJ.
'To be honest with you, neither Kevin Feige nor I knew who she was,' Amy Pascal admitted to Vogue on Tuesday.
'She was wearing no make-up and she was just dressed like a regular girl, and we were like, "Oh my God, she's amazing. She has to be in the movie." And then we found out she was a totally famous person, and felt really stupid.'
Spider-Man: Homecoming went on to amass $880.2M at the global box office upon its 2017 release followed by Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which earned a total $3.054B.
In 2016, the 27-year-old former child star - who had already dropped her self-titled debut album - was starring in Corinne
