Tom Holland Reiterates "Stealing" From SPIDER-MAN Predecessors And Proving Naysayers Wrong
The latest interview with Tom Holland has him talk enthusiastically about his portrayal of the Web-slinger, and how it will borrow from both Tobey Maguire’s and Andrew Garfield’s while still being “special.”
“Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and it just gives me more motivation to prove them wrong when I do start shooting the movie,” he said of naysayers. “And hopefully I will and it would be good fun.” Holland also received some praise from his two-time Academy Award-winning In the Heart of the Sea director, Ron Howard, who reassured that the young actor “has the best qualities” as well as “a great combination of physical ability and his willingness to throw himself into situations and still be connected to a character emotionally in ways that rings true.”
While Tom Holland couldn’t comment on wearing Spidey’s tights on Captain America: Civil War, the actor reassured this his portrayal of Peter Parker will be special compared to his predecessors. “The only difference I’m going to tell you is that I’m way younger, and at the moment, there’s going to be both things from Tobey [Maguire] and Andrew’s [Garfield] character that I’m going to steal,” he said. “But there’s one very specific path that [Spider-Man director] Jon [Watts] and I agree on and we would like to take the character down and explore his background.” What do you think?
Directed by Jon Watts, the new Spider-Man movie so far stars Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei, and is being scripted by John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein with a July 28, 2017, release date.