Last year in Avengers 3, after Thanos snapped his fingers, Spider-Man said in Iron Man's arms, "No, I don't want to die yet, Mr. Stark." I'm sorry...", while the dissipated picture successfully brought tears to many viewers.
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Before becoming Spider-Man, Tom Holland was a die-hard fan of Spider-Man, saying that joining the Marvel Universe was a dream come true. Think about it, when the Marvel Universe opened in 2008, he was only 12 years old, literally watching Iron Man and the Avengers save the lives of the people and grow up.
Iron Man's actor Robert Downey Jr. boasted: "Perfect casting." His enthusiasm, intelligence, and talent combined with his gymnastics and dance background have made this role a new life. However, Robert Downey Jr. tom Hollander, a die-hard fan, mistook the person when he first tried to talk to each other: "I thought at the time, the real person looks a little different from the movie... It wasn't until Robert walked in that I realized that this was his stand-in in front of me. ”
At the age of 12, he took the stage and became the protagonist of "Beyond My World"
Tom Holland grew up in surrey, England, where his mother was a photographer and his father was a comedian and part-time writer.
In 2006, at the age of 10, he was discovered by Lynne Page, the choreographer of the film and musical versions of Out of My World, through his performances at the Richmond Dance Competition. After eight rounds of auditions and two years of training, on 28 June 2008, he starred in his first West End musical, "Beyond My World", playing Michael, a friend of the male protagonist Billy. Three months later, he became the lead actor Billy Elios, the role of Jamie Bell in the 2000 film version.
Musical "Out of My World"
On March 8, 2010, the fifth anniversary of the musical "Out of My World", four "Billy Elios" were invited to 10 Downing Street to be received by the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, including Tom. He was also chosen as the lead star of the fifth anniversary special edition musical, where musician Elton John sat in the audience and shouted that the child's performance was "stunning."
Becoming Spider-Man takes a few steps
Step 1: Defeat the competing child stars
This is the second time Sony Pictures has rebooted the Spider-Man series. When "The Amazing Spider-Man" opened, Sony Pictures was ambitious to create a trilogy, but unfortunately, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" box office collapsed. In October 2014, Sony Pictures extended an olive branch to Marvel Studios, making the new Spider-Man part of the Marvel Universe.
In 2015, Marvel and Sony auditioned for the new Spider-Man worldwide, with a shortlist of more than 1500 young actors. Everyone thought that the new little spider was Asa Butterfield, after all, the 11-year-old London boy who became famous has been the most spirited child actor in the hearts of movie fans in the world since 2008 ("The Boy in the Striped Pajamas").
In fact, when Asa was out, Tom Holland had another opponent, Charlie Plummer, who starred in the American drama "Atlantic Empire". Marvel allegedly preferred Charlie Plummer, who was only 16 at the time, but Sony preferred Tom Holland, 19, and in the end Tom Holland laughed to the end and there was something to do with age, and March Liroff, a board member of the American Casting Association, analyzed: "If you choose an actor under the age of 18, the time you can use him on the set must be reduced." ”
Step 2: Do a backflip
It was the final and crucial round of Tom Holland's eight-round audition, when Charlie Plummer and Tom Holland appeared in pajama-like Spider-Man costumes. Seeing that the audition script said "Spider-Man flips appear and land", Tom Holland asked, "So I'll do a backflip?" Marvel executives panicked: "Will you backflip?" ”
"Captain America" Chris Evans, who was also at the audition, said: "Marvel didn't want this kid to break his neck, so everyone said don't do it." But Joe Russell (one of the directors of Captain America 3) is adamant. It turned out that the kid really did it, and it landed perfectly. ”
Backflips are commonplace for Tom Holland, who loves to play parkour.
Joe Russell said: "Capturing the super physical vitality of actors is as important as capturing their emotional scenes, and it is the essence of shaping the characters. So when you see a kid who's also a gymnast, and he can actually do the moves that are needed for post-capture, there's no one else. ”
Another director, Anthony Russell, recalled: "Only he did it. When you're going to perform a backflip, your breathing will be chaotic and you'll need to adjust your body balance, which will be reflected in your entire performance. ”
It was this backflip that made Tom Hollander Spider-Man.
Step 3: U.S. High School Expedition
In order to play the story of the American high school boy in the film, after deciding to play "Spider-Man" Peter Parker, "Dutch brother" Tom Holland made a joke with the Marvel Studios people: "Or I will go to the American school to lurk for a while." 」 As a result, Marvel really threw the British teenager to the Bronx Science High School in the United States, and they gave him a fake name, gave him a school bag full of stationery, and told him to change the British accent.
"Bronx Science High School is a pack of geniuses, and I happen not to be. And even the teachers didn't know I was a fake student, and they would call me to the front and ask me what I thought about it... I was devastated, I couldn't understand it at all. ”
"Funny, once I met a beautiful female classmate in the hallway, and she asked me: Dude, what are you doing?" I said: Do you want to know my secret? Reluctantly, she agreed. I said, "Actually, I'm from Spider-Man." She laughed at me... I explained my audition to her, but she didn't believe it at all. ”
In their eyes, he...
Ivan McGregor, who collaborated on the film The Tsunami Miracle, said of Tom Holland: "It's a kid who's never acted in front of a camera, but it's fantastic to watch him quickly master acting tricks and become a real movie actor." He was talented and polite to everyone. In this circle, it is easy for the child star to deviate, but he is definitely on the right path and will definitely become a first-class actor in the future. ”
With Ivan McGregor
At Denver Comic-Con in the summer of 2017, "Father of Spider-Man" Stan Lee publicly commented on Tom Holland: "He's awesome! I shot a day with him and he was fantastic! I couldn't believe it all, as if we had created a life form specifically for Spider-Man, and that life form was Tom. ”
Written by/Li Tong
Beijing News Editor Wu Qihan Proofreader Yang Xuli
The original report was published on the Beijing News on September 11, 2017