Undoubtedly, the role of Spider-Man brought to Tom Holland to stardom, but thanks to his talent, his sympathy and the fact that he never stopped showing himself as an ordinary human being, he has also earned, in recent years, a place in the hearts of the public. In each of the interviews that he grants, the actor usually speaks without hesitation, tells anecdotes that arouse laughter and recounts experiences that do not always leave him well off. This Friday, he did it again.
During an interview on the show Live with Kelly and Ryan The 25-year-old actor revealed, between laughs, that during the filming of the first of the films in which he played the spider hero of New York, his mother made a secret call to the production with a very special request.
The story began after the host, Ryan Seacrest, told him that he wore the Spiderman suit during the program in which he and his partner, Kelly Ripa, announced their own Oscar nominees. Then, Holland asked mischievously: “And your suit had a zipper? And you know what I mean by ‘a zipper.’” Right after, she revealed that none of the outfits she wore during the trilogy featured one.
And there he dispatched with the anecdote: “In the first movie, we were shooting a sequence in the Washington obelisk and I was wearing the suit for 11 hours over several days,” he began by recounting. He explained, “I was young and I wanted to impress the studio, so I didn’t want them to think I needed bathroom breaks.”
However, going through that situation was so annoying that it became a topic of conversation with his own mother, the British photographer Nicola Elizabeth Frost. “In one of my daily calls to my mom I said, ‘Mom, I’m really struggling… I work every day and because I wear the suit, I can’t go to the bathroom’”, he recalled. But, of course, the story did not end there: “Two days later, one of the producers came up to me and said, ‘How are your kidneys?'”
The actor said that, surprised by the curious question, he answered that he was fine, and asked him what his interest was due to. “Well… Your mom called us,” the man revealed. “Yeah, so my mom called the biggest studio in the world and said, ‘Give my son more bathroom breaks!'”Holland recalled, eliciting laughter from his interviewers.
In mid-December, it premiered Spider-Man: No Way Home, and in the middle of one of the many interviews offered by Holland and Zendaya -who plays Peter Parker’s love interest, Michelle Jones, and is also the actor’s girlfriend in real life- It was dispatched with an eschatological anecdote that has them as protagonists.
“I farted. Yeah, I farted on Zendaya, unfortunately.”, surprised the actor in a radio report. And he justified: “It’s hard… The suit is tight. The harness tightens”. Luckily, actor Jacob Batalon was in the studio, who plays Ned Leeds, Peter Parker’s best friend, and quickly came to his defense: “The suit squeezes your intestines.” According to what they said, that “accident” occurred during the filming of a scene in which the three actors had to swing together through the air.
But Zendaya’s version of that unexpected moment had yet to be heard. That is why, when asked if he realized it at the time or if his partner confessed to him later what had happened, he did not hesitate and, laughing, he replied: “It was so obvious!” And to further illustrate the situation, she hit her thigh with her open hand and added: “I felt the rattle.” Holland, then, wanted to make a clarification: “No! I confessed it! Right away, I was like, ‘Ugh, I’m sorry.’”.
The chemistry between them allowed them to give fans other anecdotes outside the script. “There is one scene in particular where the Spider-Man swings us over a bridge and leaves me there,” Zendaya said in another interview. And, smiling, she added: “Because of our height difference, he was going to land before him.” “I am the superhero! I’m supposed to look amazing, “Holland then interrupted, and ended by saying that she was the one who had to catch him for the scene to really work.