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Tom Holland left the set of The Odyssey a changed man. During a recent sit-down interview to promote Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic, Holland said he pressed Marvel Studios and Sony executives on the way they were making Spider-Man movies after seeing how Nolan operates.
In The Odyssey, Tom Holland is starring as Telemachus, the son of Matt Damon’s Odysseus. During a discussion on GQ between Holland, Damon, and Robert Pattinson — seemingly the three leads of the film — Holland detailed how his experience working on The Odyssey caused him to reevaluate the process of making Spider-Man movies.
Holland’s latest Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man: Brand New Day — his fourth solo film in the franchise — will be released in movie theaters on July 31.
Tom Holland said watching Christopher Nolan on The Odyssey set made him want to “lay down the law” on the Spider-Man set
According to Holland, watching Nolan lead a movie set encouraged him to speak up — or, as he put it, “lay down the law” — about how his Marvel production should be run.
“I’d say, ‘We are not going to come to set and figure it out. We need to know why we are making this movie beyond the fact that it’s ‘Spider-Man 4’ and they make loads of money and we’re going to just have a big summer. Why are we making this movie?’ And Destin was super instrumental in that, but it was just really great to constantly be calling up the studio and [producers] Amy [Pascal] and Rachel [O’Connor], who I love, and be like, ‘Well, Chris is doing it this way. This is how I think we should be doing it.’ ” [via GQ]
In addition to Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Brand New Day also stars Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, and Mark Ruffalo. Check out the official trailer below.