After being announced
as the "perfect actor" to play the new Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe and Sony franchise, actor Tom Holland speaks of the
casting process and something he said years ago.
While promoting Ron
Howard's In the Heart of the Sea, Holland spoke to the Associated Press and
revealed that years before the opportunity to play Spider-Man arose he had told
Empire Magazine that if there was a superhero he would like to play in the future it would
have to be the wall crawler.
When I found out that
they were recasting the role, I rang up my agent, I said, “Listen, just get me
a self-tape. Just please let me send off something so that they can see me — I
know it’ll never happen. And he said, “they’ve actually requested to see you,”
which was like music to my ears, and it kinda just went from there, really.
Holland was one of
several actors that tested for the role. Charlie Rowe, Matthew Linz, Charlie
Plummer, and Judah Lewis were also being considered. So what may have set him
apart of his fellow actors? Well, maybe his acrobatic skills, which he has demonstrated
time and time again not only in videos he has posted on social media, but also
in his audition tapes.
Well, I did my first
audition tape with Joel Kinnaman — I was shooting a really small indie film
with him earlier in the year — and they gave me two scenes and I had to do an
ident, which is basically where you say, “Hi, my name is Tom Holland, I’m this,
I’m this tall, I’m this old.” And I basically did like a somersault into frame
and then a somersault out of frame ‘cause I basically — I was like, they may
never see this, but if they do I need them to know that I’ve got some
gymnastics abilities and stuff, and every tape I sent in I always did a little
acrobatic demo to try and convince them to give me the role.
Holland will make
superhero debut alongside Captain America, Iron Man, and Black Panther in
Captain America: Civil War, which comes out on May 6, 2016, before swinging to
his own franchise on July 28, 2017.
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