Zendaya plays Athena, goddess of weaving, in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. At home, she and Tom Holland crochet together.

Zendaya plays Athena, goddess of weaving, in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. At home, she and Tom Holland crochet together.

Athena invented weaving. She taught it to mortal women. The loom is her symbol across every surviving Greek source, sitting alongside the spear and the owl as the three things that define her. Zendaya was cast as Athena in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, releasing July 17, 2026, opposite Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, and Robert Pattinson as Antinous. Holland plays Telemachus, her on-screen charge in the origin…