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Tom Holland is the boyfriend or husband we\u2019d all love to have. Seeing him on the red carpet with Zendaya<\/a>\u2014so sweet, thoughtful, and never over the top\u2014it\u2019s almost impossible not to fall in love with him. Anne Hathaway<\/a>, however, who spent several months with him on the set of The Odyssey<\/em><\/a>, took it a step further, going so far as to describe him not as her dream partner, but as her ideal son.<\/p>\n The actor, already the mother of Jonathan and Jack, announced<\/a> in late June that she was pregnant with her third child with her husband, Adam Shulman. In Christopher Nolan\u2019s film, she plays Penelope, the mother of Telemachus, played by Holland<\/a>, and during a promotional interview with New York\u2019s eTalk, she drew parallels between her on-screen role and her real life. \u201cAs a mom in real life, I very much hope all of my children grow up to be as wonderful as my onscreen child,\u201d Hathaway said. \u201cTom is like a dream son.\u201d<\/p>\n The character portrayed by the star of The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> is the wife of Odysseus, played by Matt Damon, who spends ten years fighting in the Trojan War and another ten trying to return home.<\/p>\n In the epic poem, Penelope was 15 when she gave birth to Telemachus. Hathaway is 13 years older than Holland, and she slipped perfectly into the role. \u201cIt was really interesting to kind of translate what the world that I live in and what my idea of being a loving mother is to 3,000 years ago,\u201d she said during a stop on her promotional tour. \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as gentle parenting in ancient Greece! The stakes were really, really high. And there was sometimes a need for her to scare [Telemachus] in order to keep him safe. It just made me grateful that I feel like I have more avenues available to me now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what it is to raise a teenage boy,\u201d she added. \u201cMy kids are still very young, at least they feel young.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite this, she\u2019s certain: she\u2019d like them to be like Holland when they grow up. In Nolan\u2019s film\u2014which features a stellar cast, including Holland\u2019s wife Zendaya as the goddess Athena\u2014Holland also stars.<\/p>\n The two were married in secret a few months ago. They rarely open up about their private lives, but Zendaya recently shared how it was her husband who wanted to break the news to her that Nolan\u2014her favorite director\u2014had cast her in the film. She was \u201calready on cloud nine\u201d for her husband, \u201cAnd then he came home and said, \u2018I need you to read something.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Is it that thing we were just reading the other night?\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cAnd he was like [nods head], \u2018But now read it thinking of [Athena].\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n A dream come true and the perfect husband.<\/p>\n Originally published in<\/em> Vanity Fair Italia<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n