{"id":778602,"date":"2026-11-12T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/778602\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T14:02:16","slug":"tom-holland-says-the-odyssey-has-given-him-ambition-for-new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/778602\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland Says ‘The Odyssey’ Has Given Him Ambition for New Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Holland<\/a> has starred in two of this year\u2019s biggest-grossing films \u2013 \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d and \u201cThe Odyssey<\/a>\u201d \u2013 but he says it\u2019s the latter that will impact the next stage of his career.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt a screening of Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2019s Greek epic in London on Thursday, Holland was asked what he\u2019d taken away from the experience, in which he plays Odysseus\u2019 son Telemachus, to which he replied: \u201cI\u2019d probably say it\u2019s confidence and an ambition to see what else is out there for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been an admirer of Chris since I can remember, and to have the opportunity to work with him and to have his approval, and to sit in his house and watch his movie and to get a pat on the back, for me, just was like the perfect way for me to start whatever it is that I\u2019m doing next,\u201d Holland explained. \u201cHe\u2019s given me a level of confidence as an actor that I don\u2019t know if I had before and I\u2019m very grateful that that is something that I can take away from this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHolland said that while he has also learned a lot from his fellow actors (which included his wife Zendaya) and crew members, he would be going into his next project \u201cwith this sense of achievement and this newfound confidence in what I think I can do\u201d thanks to Nolan\u2019s film. \u201cThat is what Chris and Emma do so well, is they really champion their actors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor, who has played Spider-Man for over a decade, is understood to be in pre-production for a Fred Astaire biopic<\/a> which will see him return to his dancing roots, given that Holland\u2019s entry into showbiz was via the West End stage production of \u201cBilly Elliot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRobert Pattinson<\/a>, who plays the scheming Antinous in \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d joined Holland at the screening in London, where he also reflected on working with Nolan and his wife and producing partner Emma Nolan, saying the couple make filmmaking look \u201ceffortless.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUnderscoring the point, Pattinson, who is currently in London filming \u201cThe Batman: Part II,\u201d<\/a> revealed he lives next door to the couple in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz, where he saw the Nolans holding a bake sale on their drive just days before they flew out to start shooting \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d undoubtedly the most ambitious project of their careers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s like a week out from shooting, and [Emma] had made about a million cakes, which were delicious, like incredible cakes, and she stayed all day,\u201d Pattinson marvelled. \u201cIt was for a charity, and she\u2019s like selling cakes in the driveway, to the neighbors, all day. This is about five days before the shoot. Her and Chris. I was literally like, this is the craziest thing I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was literally just walking past. I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re still doing the cakes?\u2019\u201d he laughed. \u201cIt\u2019s wild. They\u2019re just on another level of calm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs well as shooting for three months across six countries on both land and sea, \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d is the first feature film to be shot entirely on Imax 70mm film cameras (Nolan shot more than 2 million feet of film.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think what\u2019s so amazing about Chris is that he\u2019s able to create scale, but without sacrificing the heart and soul of what makes the characters tick,\u201d Holland said during the sceening, which was held at the 65-feet high BFI Imax theater in London.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe beauty of the Imax camera is that it almost like looks into your soul,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou know, like you have stage acting, and then it kind of goes to film acting, and there\u2019s a difference. And then I think there\u2019s even a bigger difference to IMAX acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut there was one \u2013 large drawback \u2013 he said. Glancing at the enormous screen behind him, Holland quipped \u201cI was very upset about my pimple opening the movie. It literally is the opening scene. First time you see me, it\u2019s like right there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Holland has starred in two of this year\u2019s biggest-grossing films \u2013 \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d and \u201cThe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,30852,18,117,19,17,11751,30853,18237],"class_list":["post-778602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-robert-pattinson","tag-the-odyssey","tag-tom-holland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117603843991417957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}