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Of all the people in the world I’d like to trade lives with, Tom Holland is certainly up near the top, minus the whole “being a Tottenham Hotspur supporter” thing, as being a Liverpool fan is far more enjoyable. Sorry co-worker (and also my boss) Cass, if you’re reading this. But I digress, as we aren’t here to talk about the footy.
Holland, despite being just 25-years-old, has already been playing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for over half-a-decade and is now being positioned as the franchise’s next centerpiece, similar to the role Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man occupied for the first decade of the MCU.
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While his forays outside of the comfy confines of the MCU haven’t been as successful as he likely would’ve hoped (Cherry was a bomb and no one saw Chaos Walking), he was solid in The Devil All The Time, is set to star in potential-new-franchise Uncharted with Mark Wahlberg, and has been tapped to play Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic for Sony Pictures. Plus, he’s also dating Zendaya, which is objectively dope. Objectively *very dope*, if I do say so myself.
But for all the perks Tom Holland has in his life, there is, in fact, one thing that I’m far better than him at and that’s keeping secrets. This dude Tom Holland has almost become synonymous with spoiling movies, as there are literally YouTube compilations of him doing exactly that. Hell, Marvel Studios wouldn’t even let him read the whole Avengers: Infinity War script out of fear he’d wind up spoiling it.
Unfortunately for Zendaya, she’s also been a victim of Holland’s inability to keep his mouth shut, as he apparently ruined the ending of Avengers: Endgame — namely, the death of Iron Man — before she got to see the film.
“As far as spoilers I wish I didn’t know, I wish I didn’t know about Iron Man before that movie came out,” said Zendaya during a recent interview.
“Who told you that?” Holland sarcastically responded. “Who told you that Iron Man died? That’s terrible. Bless you.”
“I know, I didn’t get to enjoy it,” replied Zendaya.
Luckily for Holland, he only has to keep his Spider-Man: No Way Home secrets to himself for another nine days, as the film will finally hit theaters on December 17. You can do it, Tom!
Spider-Man: No Way Home — the fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4 following Black Widow, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Eternals, and 27th film overall — stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, Zendaya as MJ, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, Jamie Foxx as Electro, Alfred Molina as Doc Ock, and Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin. While Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men have yet to be confirmed, odds are they’ll show up, too. The film is scheduled to hit theaters in the United States on Friday, December 17.
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