Zendaya still can't believe she is part of the new Spider-Man movie because she saw one of the superhero films on her first date.

The K.C. Undercover star plays a character named Michelle in Spider-Man: Homecoming and reveals she fell in love with the superhero the first time she saw him on the big screen.

"I was obsessed with it immediately," she told breakfast show Good Morning America on Tuesday (20Jun17). "(I) always kind of related to Spider-Man because, to me, he's a real person. He's not just a superhero all the time, he is at the end of the day Peter Parker, who is a 15-year-old kid, which we can all relate to.

"We've all been that awkward teenager and had that time in our life," she continued. "Everybody has. So I think he was always like the realest superhero. He was tangible to people. It just happened that that was my first date and here we are now. It's crazy."

Spider-Man: Homecoming is Zendaya's first film, but she has already lined up a role alongside Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, and Zac Efron in The Greatest Showman. She plays a trapeze artist in the film and was thrilled to be able to perform some of her own stunts.

"As many as I was allowed to do," she said. "It was such an incredible experience. I was actually living in New York for five months. I did a lot of working out, a lot of trapeze training, which is something I never thought I'd be doing... It was amazing. It's going to be such an incredible movie. I just want to continue to make the right career moves and do things that I'm passionate about."