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Breaking Baz: Zendaya Keeps The Spotlight On Tom Holland As He Makes His Shakespeare Debut In Modern-Dress ‘Romeo & Juliet’ In London’s West End

Zendaya Sees Her Romeo,Tom Holland Star In Romeo & Juliet

This time it was the occasion of the official opening night for Jamie Lloyd ’s stark, modern-dress production of Shakespeare’s The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, to give its full title, starring Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as the tragic star-crossed lovers. She repeated those same moves, but in reverse, after Holland had embraced and kissed Amewudah-Rivers, taken his bows with the Romeo & Juliet company and showered away the first-night sweat that glistened his face. First-nighters included Tom Hiddleston, Zane Ashton, Lashana Lynch, Stormzy, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Meera Syal, Jeremy O’Harris, Tamzin Outhwaite, Jade Anouka, Robert Glenister and Arian Moayed.

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