{"id":30718,"date":"2023-06-15T06:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=30718"},"modified":"2023-06-15T06:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T06:01:02","slug":"tom-holland-breaks-free-talking-zendaya-the-crowded-room-and-the-future-of-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=30718","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland Breaks Free: Talking Zendaya, \u2018The Crowded Room\u2019 and the Future of Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"
After six stints as the web crawler, the 27-year-old Brit opens up about the pressures of mega-celebrity, his superstar girlfriend and his \u201cSpider-Boys\u201d group chat with Tobey and Andrew. Tom Holland is having a rough morning. Not because he partied too hard the night before \u2014 though the Marvel Studios superstar had enough reasons to, what with it being his birthday and the world premiere at New York\u2019s MoMA of The Crowded Room, the Apple TV+ series that he both stars in and executive produced. But Holland quit drinking alcohol a year and a half ago. No, this particular migraine comes from waking up to learn that Crowded Room \u2014 what Holland deems the \u201chardest thing I\u2019ve ever done\u201d (this according to a guy who has played Spider-Man in six feature films) \u2014 has been met by rough early reviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a kick in the teeth,\u201d Holland admits, unprompted, over eggs Benedict on the quiet terrace of a hotel in SoHo. \u201cRolling over, looking up the reviews, and then all of a sudden I was like, \u2018Wow. That\u2019s a bad review.\u2019 Sometimes there\u2019s a redeeming quality in there. There was nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holland speaks loudly and confidently and in a thick London accent \u2014 he grew up there and still calls it home. At first it\u2019s disorienting. Most of his characters are American and voiced in milder tones. Onscreen, he is jokey and self-effacing. Speaking to a journalist, he\u2019s serious and a bit guarded. He makes rock-solid eye contact whenever he wants to convey a point. He is pale, lean \u2014 whatever the ideal body fat percentage is, he has it \u2014 and delicately handsome. He\u2019s wearing loose-fitting jeans and a Moscot T-shirt featuring a vintage drawing of a man taking an eye test.<\/p>\n

Every star learns to take their knocks in stride. And at 27, Holland is already a savvy veteran of the Hollywood game. He certainly still looks young enough to don the Spider-Man suit once again, perhaps even for another trilogy. Meetings to determine the fate of his Peter Parker are in fact already underway. But he knows that career longevity will ultimately hinge on every move he makes outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n

Uncharted, his first swing at a non-Spider-Man action franchise, was a win: The 2022 video game adaptation earned $400 million worldwide on a $120 million budget. But Cherry, a 2021 drama directed by the Russo brothers in which he played a strung-out heroin addict, drew a humdrum response.<\/p>\n

Initial reviews of A Crowded Room seemed no better. But right after bringing them up, Holland brightens: \u201cThere will be good ones. There will be. I try to have a healthy outlook on all that sort of stuff and respect everyone\u2019s opinion.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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