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Tom Holland recalls disastrous Star Wars audition where he couldn’t stop laughing: ‘I obviously didn’t it’
Tom Holland may have successfully landed his role as Spider-Man in the Marvel movies, but things didn’t go so well for him that time he auditioned to be in Star Wars.
Turns out the actor, 24, was after bagging a role in 2015 release Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but a disastrous audition meant he never received that all important call-back.
Tom had been auditioning for the role of Finn, later brought to life by John Boyega, but was overcome by a real bad case of the giggles, after being forced to carry out a scene with a, erm, lady drone.
Recalling the awkward audition to Backstage, Tom, who confessed to once reading the wrong lines at an audition, said: ‘I remember my audition for Star Wars, I was like four or five auditions in – and I think was auditioning for John Boyega’s role.
‘I remember doing this scene with this lady, bless her, and she was just a drone. So I was doing all of this like, “We gotta get back to the ship,” and she was going, “Bleep, bloop bloop, bleep bloop,” and I just couldn’t stop laughing.’
Tom confessed: ‘I found it so funny… I felt really bad because she was trying really hard to be a convincing android or drone – whatever they’re called. Yeah, I obviously didn’t get the part.’
‘That wasn’t my best moment,’ he admitted.
Luckily for Tom, he managed to redeem himself and won the role of Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in Marvel’s latest trilogy for the web-slinging superhero.
He was a hit with fans when Spider Man: Homecoming was released in 2017 and returned as Parker in follow-up film Spider Man: Far From Home in 2019.
Now, Tom is busy shooting for Spider Man 3 and recently confirmed that his little brother Harry will make an appearance alongside him in the film.
Speaking on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Tom revealed: ‘He has a small cameo in Cherry, he plays a character called the shaker kid and he’s a drug dealer.
‘We kind of had this idea that in every film I would be in, Harry would reprise his role as the shaker kid. So he is back again in his own sort of, MCU Cinematic Universe as the ecstasy dealing shaker kid.’
Keen to pull the odd prank on his little brother, Tom teased that his brother is hanging upside down in one of Spidey’s webs in his cameo scene, so naturally, he made sure to keep him there for as along as possible during filming.
‘I know how difficult that can be. So at the beginning of the day, I was making the takes extra, extra long, to see how long it would take before he passed out,’ he joked.
‘Towards the end of the day, I really did start to get worried about him. ‘It’s a funny scene though, and it was really fun for me to share that moment with him. I’m sure my mum and dad will be very proud.’
Spider-Man 3 is set for release on December 17, 2021.
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