(He has two more younger brothers back in London: Harry’s twin, Sam, a chef, and Paddy, who’s sixteen.)
“He is my assistant, I guess, but really, he’s my brother, and he’s here as a companion, and he helps me prep everything I’ve got going on,” Holland says. His entourage-which is exactly what he would not call it-is hanging around, including his hair-and-makeup artist, his dialect coach, his costumer, and one of his brothers, Harry, twenty-two. He’s decorated his trailer college-dorm-room style, and for the season: lots of multicolored tinsel and twinkling lights tacked up haphazardly. This is where I reach him, by Zoom, in mid-December. He just has it all.”Īs Holland attempts to break out of the figurative Marvel bubble, he is working inside the literal one, filming his as-yet-untitled third Spider-Man film on a highly secure, COVID-protected soundstage in Atlanta. The charisma factor is so high that he’s an incredible conduit for any story that you want to tell. “He’s the hardest- working actor we’d been around.
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“We would do every movie for the rest of our lives with Tom Holland,” says Joe Russo, the slightly younger brother of Anthony. Everyone around him-his collaborators, his famous mentors, and his contemporaries-says he’s ready to move outside the Marvel boundary and have his grown-up moment. But it is a first step into a new and uncertain period in his career, and he’s not quite sure what that period will look like yet. While the subject matter is unlike anything Holland has tackled before, the production was not completely alien to him: For one thing, it was directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, who guided Holland through all those Avengers films. This article appears in the March 2021 issue of Esquire.Ĭherry, which is set to be released in theaters on February 26 (and on Apple TV+ on March 12), just before the deadline for Oscar consideration, is Holland’s chance to reintroduce himself to audiences and his peers as a different kind of classically American character: one who bears the cost of war and slides into an addiction that takes over his life.
“They are really proud, and they really liked it.” “They were able to enjoy it as a movie and not a biopic of their son doing heroin,” he says.
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Holland’s parents-Mum is Nicola Frost, a photographer, and Dad is Dominic Holland, a writer and comedian-came around after watching a full cut of the film for a second time. But it took some time for his friends and family to get used to the idea of him headlining this kind of film, which is based on the novel of the same name by Nico Walker, a real-life bank robber–turned–literary darling. It’s been more than a year since Cherry wrapped, and now that the color has returned to his cheeks, his mum’s forgiven him. “I guess I wasn’t thinking right, and I was like, ‘Do you know who would really like to see this? My mum.’ In hindsight, it was a really stupid thing to have done.” He continues: “I think when my mum goes to see my films in particular, the things she likes the most are the moments she goes, ‘Oh, that’s my little boy.’ But in this film there’s nothing like that.” “I was like, ‘This is how my day’s going,’ and she was furious with me. “Biggest mistake ever,” he says now, grinning. After filming the scene that takes place in the jail, Holland was a little woozy but still pleased with his performance, so he did what any young person might in a moment of pride: He sent the footage of himself writhing around in the cell to his mother. Holland, the twenty-four-year-old British actor best known as Marvel’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, the sweet-faced hero of the ever-expanding cinematic universe, was in character for Cherry, a forthcoming film in which he plays an Army medic who returns home from the Iraq war with undiagnosed PTSD, develops a heroin addiction, and starts robbing banks. Wearing a khaki prison uniform that hung loosely on his frame, he rocked back and forth on the floor, smacking his head against the cement a few times in the process. His rusty brown hair had been shaved off his typically smiling eyes were sunken. In the late fall of 2019, Tom Holland was lying sideways on the floor of a jail cell, sweating, convulsing, throwing up blood.