{"id":1031824,"date":"2026-06-17T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1031824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:46:24","slug":"tom-holland-names-the-actor-he-wants-to-succeed-him-as-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1031824\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland names the actor he wants to succeed him as Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Holland is weighing in on who should play Spider-Man next.<\/p>\n

After previously hinting at plans to pass the iconic superhero franchise to a worthy successor<\/a>, the 30-year-old actor told Esquire<\/a> in an interview published Tuesday that he has another baby-faced Brit in mind to take over the beloved character of Peter Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201cOwen Cooper would be awesome,\u201d he said of the 16-year-old star of Netflix\u2019s hit miniseries Adolescence.<\/a> \u201cObviously he\u2019s super-talented and the talk of the town right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper has skyrocketed to fame<\/a> following his breakout role in the Emmy-winning drama, in which he played Jamie Miller, a troubled teen who stabbed his female classmate to death. <\/p>\n

His performance made him the youngest ever actor to win both the BAFTA Television Award for Best Supporting Actor<\/a> and a Golden Globe in the same category.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Holland has named who he wants to play Spider-Man next (Getty)\"OwenOwen Cooper, who won best performance by a male actor in a supporting role on TV for ‘Adolescence,’ is Holland\u2019s pick to play Spider-Man next (Getty)<\/p>\n

Although he threw Cooper\u2019s name out, there has been no confirmation that Holland \u2014 who has played Parker since 2016\u2019s Captain America: Civil War \u2014 plans to hang up his Spider-Man mask anytime soon ahead of the release of the franchise\u2019s fourth installment, Spider-Man: Brand New Day.<\/p>\n

Holland, who also confirmed in the Esquire interview that he has officially married his Spider-Man franchise co-star and longtime girlfriend Zendaya<\/a>, has previously said that he plans to quit acting when he starts a family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has also spoken several times about his plans to stay involved in the Marvel films after his tenure is finished.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the way that Robert Downey was such a mentor for me in my first three movies, I would love to be that person for whoever is next,\u201d he told Esquire.<\/p>\n

In April, he said about the future transition: \u201cFor whoever\u2019s next, whether that is a Miles Morales or a Spider-Gwen or a Spider-Woman or something like that, I would love to be a part of setting up the next chapter. Whatever that looks like, I don\u2019t know. But if I could do what [Robert Downey Jr.] did for me, then I would be so content swinging off into the sunset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which Holland has previously described as \u201cthe most emotional Spider-Man movie yet,\u201d<\/a> is in theaters July 31. Also starring Zendaya, Jacob Batalon and franchise newcomer Sadie Sink, Brand New Day is set five years after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which ended with Parker living in a universe where his loved ones do not remember him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1031825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[284730,284729,157021,2347,282176,284726,252358,284725,557,4080,47671,77,2584,44154,284728,44888,38380,104593,3943,17742,284731,457,2249,15692,3842,282178,284727,254472,16,15,659,134941,276731,18015],"class_list":["post-1031824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-83rd-golden-globe-awards","tag-adolescence-television-show","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-award","tag-awards-ceremony","tag-best-performance","tag-best-supporting-actor","tag-beverly-hills-california","tag-california","tag-celebrities","tag-color-image","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-film-industry","tag-golden-globe-statue","tag-horizontal","tag-journalist","tag-looking-at-camera","tag-movies","tag-one-person","tag-owen-cooper-actor","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-portrait","tag-press-room","tag-television-awards","tag-the-beverly-hilton-hotel","tag-theatrical-performance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa","tag-waist-up","tag-winners-room","tag-winning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}