I was telling my family, ‘I got the part! I got the part!’ And obviously, that was right about the time when Sony had got hacked, so my brother, Harry, who’s quite tech savvy, was like, ‘No.
It said, ‘We would like to introduce our new Spider-Man, Tom Holland.’ I broke my computer, because I flipped it up in the air. “I type in ‘Marvel.’ I’ve still got the article saved on my computer. Holland continues: “I got my computer, and my dog was sitting next to me,” he says. “You found out in the press?” Kaluuya asks. And by this point, I kind of had assumed I hadn’t got it, because no one had called me.” I lost and I was upset, and I remember going on my phone and checking Instagram, and Marvel had posted a picture of Spider-Man, of the cartoon. “By that point, it had been an amazing enough of an experience that if I hadn’t got the part, I would’ve felt like I’d at least achieved something to get to that point. “They flew us back to Atlanta, me and one other guy, and we did this scene, which was so surreal,” Holland says. Six weeks later, Holland returned for another screen test, where he performed a fight scene with Captain America (Chris Evans). We started riffing with each other, and I mean, to sound like a bit of a dick, I rang my mum afterward and was like, ‘I think I’ve got it.’” And then, on the first take, Downey just completely changed the scene. My agents told me that Marvel likes you to learn the words exactly - you can’t improvise. “It’s the best audition I’ve ever done, him and I were riffing off each other.
“There was me and six other kids, and Downey was there, so we all tested with Downey, which was crazy,” Holland says. I must’ve done six auditions, and they don’t tell you anything.”Įventually, he got called to do a screen test in Atlanta opposite Iron Man. “There’s three stages of life changing,” Holland says. Then, Sony rebooted the franchise with Andrew Garfield in the role, and a lot fewer fans were impressed. First, Sam Raimi directed Tobey Maguire in the role and revolutionized the genre, rendering millions of fans awestruck. He’s currently filming a third “Spider-Man” sequel in Atlanta. Spider-Man, has been cast in a major live-action Hollywood franchise three times.
The films series of possible guest-stars has gotten more headlines than nearly anything in. Holland has played Spider-Man in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” and he’s starred in two stand-alone movies (2017’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home”). Spider-Man 3 aka Spider-Man: No Way Home is official, but its cast is a far different situation.