Tom Holland gained a reputation as a liability when it came to Marvel press briefings in his early years as the MCU’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, joining fellow Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo as someone who just couldn’t quite stop himself from accidentally leaking some big secrets that were meant to be kept under wraps for a little longer. While experience has taught the actor how to hold back on revealing spoilers – even if he almost has a slip every now and then, like in the recent video of him watching the second Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer with fellow stars Zendaya and Jacob Batalon when he seemed on the verge of saying something that many believe related to the potential of other Spider-Man being missing from the trailer – in a recent interview, Holland revealed that the stress of those first press tours for Spider-Man: Homecoming really burnt him out.
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“I was really ill… But I didn’t say no. I was like, ‘I can do it, I can do it, I can do it,’” Holland said in the new edition of GQ while discussing how hard it was to keep going during the 17-country tour. By the time they arrived in China, Holland was feeling so done in that he walked off stage to vomit. “I was under a lot of pressure to finish the day’s work. That was the first time I was really like, ‘No, I’m done now. I’ve given you everything.’”
Tom Holland has recently alluded that his time as Spider-Man could be coming to an end, which will not be good news for his many fans, but could be even worse news for the fate of the character considering the subheading of his third and possibly final MCU outing, as well as a suggestion made by Venom: Let There Be Carnage director Andy Serkis that the webslinger is likely to come up against Vemon sometime in future. Whether somewhere down the line this is going to lead to the death of this particular iteration of Spider-Man is unclear but is definitely a dark road that could potentially play out.
“Maybe it is time for me to move on. Maybe what’s best for Spider-Man is that they do a Miles Morales film,” Holland said of his Marvel future. “I have to take Peter Parker into account as well, because he is an important part of my life… If I’m playing Spider-Man after I’m 30, I’ve done something wrong.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home is shaping up to be the biggest Marvel release of the last two years and could well be the first movie since 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home to get close to breaking the $1 billion dollar mark when it is released in December. There have been few movies as hyped in the last few years as this, and the return of a number of legacy villains and almost certainly heroes from Spider-Man’s cinematic history, the setting up of the next Doctor Strange movie and a further expansion on where the multiverse is heading are all factors that make it one of the most interesting and important movies in the MCU since Avengers: Endgame. Spider-Man: No Way Home will arrive in cinemas on December 17th in the U.S. and two days earlier on December 15th in the U.K. The full interview with Tom Holland can be read at GQ.
