Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland will return as the iconic the wall-crawler... but he probably won't be suiting-up again for quite a while!
During an interview with Extra, Holland revealed that he's planning to take the next year off from acting following the strenuous production of his new Apple TV+ crime thriller, The Crowded Room.
“It was a tough time, for sure,” said the actor. “We were exploring certain emotions that I have definitely never experienced before. And then on top of that, being a producer, dealing with the day-to-day problems that come with any film set, just added that extra level of pressure.”
I’m no stranger to hard work,” he continued. “I’ve lived by the idea that hard work is good work. Then again, the show did break me. There did come a time where I needed a break and disappeared and went to Mexico for a week and had time on a beach and laid low. I’m now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was. I am excited to see how it turns out. I feel like our hard work wasn’t in vain.”
We'll find out how audiences respond to The Crowded Room when it premieres this weekend, but critics have not been kind, and the show is currently sitting at an abysmal 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Although Sony Pictures exec and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse producer Amy Pascal recently announced that a fourth live-action Spider-Man movie is officially in-development with Holland and Zendaya both set to return, work on the project has stalled due to the ongoing WGA strike, so Holland's hiatus really couldn't have come at a better time.
This isn't to say that his break definitely won't have any impact on production if the strike ends sooner than anticipated, but we're sure Holland cleared things with the studio first, regardless.
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