United Kingdom, July 16 -- Zendaya jokingly threatened to "leave" her husband, Tom Holland, if he declined to star in The Odyssey.

The 30-year-old actor did "a lot of thinking" after director Sir Christopher Nolan approached him to play Telemachus, the son of Odysseus (Matt Damon) and Penelope (Anne Hathaway), in the adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic.

Speaking alongside Christopher and Matt, both 55, and Anne, 43, Tom, 30, told the new issue of PEOPLE magazine: "To be honest, when I got home after our meeting, I sat down with Z and was like, 'I've been offered this movie.'

"And she was like, 'By who?' And I was like, 'It's the big one.' And she was like, 'Chris?' I was like, 'Yeah, it's Chris Nolan.'"

Tom was concerned about sc...