{"id":998248,"date":"2026-06-01T11:52:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/998248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:52:46","slug":"tom-holland-hints-at-passing-spider-man-role-on-to-another-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/998248\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland hints at passing Spider-Man role on to another actor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Holland is teasing his future as Spider-Man after a decade in the iconic superhero role.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old British actor <\/a>\u2014 who has played Peter Parker since 2016 film Captain America: Civil War \u2014 hinted in a recent interview that he is willing to help eventually pass the franchise on to a worthy successor.<\/a><\/p>\n

\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,\u201d Holland said in an interview with Empire<\/a> published Friday.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cWhatever 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

Downey Jr., who played Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>, introduced Holland\u2019s Spider-Man to the universe in Civil War. Holland went on to headline three Spider-Man films and appear in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. <\/p>\n

\"TomTom Holland is hinting at his future plans to retire from playing Spider-Man (Getty Images)\"TomTom Holland has played Spider-Man since 2016 (Disney\/Sony)<\/p>\n

Holland has not publicly indicated any plans to officially retire from Hollywood, but he previously said that he plans to quit acting when he starts a family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the iconic role of Spider-Man was taken on in previous iterations of the films by actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, Holland will become the first Spider-Man actor to headline four solo movies with his return to the beloved character in Brand New Day, in theaters July 31.<\/p>\n

He told Empire that the new movie is the first Spider-Man film where he was invited to join the writers\u2019 room, and that he met with execs every two weeks to pitch ideas and speak about the future of the franchise.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Holland and Zendaya have starred in four Spider-Man movies together (Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy pitch when I came to the table with it was called \u2018Spider-Puberty.\u2019 What happens if Peter Parker is losing control and things are changing?\u201d he told the outlet. \u201c\u2019Spider-Puberty\u2019 was my tagline pitch to the studio \u2014 which was immediately shot down. But they liked the kernel of the idea and it grew into what we have in the movie now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holland previously described the new film as \u201cthe most emotional Spider-Man movie yet\u201d<\/a> and \u201cthe most grown up.\u201d Also starring Zendaya, Jacob Batalon and newcomer to the franchise Sadie Sink, Brand New Day is set five years after the events of the previous film, Spider-Man: No Way Home, which ended with Parker living in a universe where his loved ones do not remember him.<\/p>\n

Holland and Zendaya, who are engaged, will also appear together<\/a> in Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey, which opens July 17.<\/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":998249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3935],"tags":[126022,157021,162349,120213,256050,48760,277032,20878,557,4080,267487,256061,86789,277027,263496,263488,77,96544,44154,137736,256057,277026,277029,3943,277024,277025,457,2249,83054,277030,3886,254180,107047,276732,277033,115959,45797,263497,263493,341,171379,138657,256049,277022,108655,277020,277031,16,15,659,277028,17246,277023,255868,233758,277021],"class_list":["post-998248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-silk","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-attending","tag-beige","tag-black-color","tag-brown","tag-brown-suit","tag-bulgari","tag-california","tag-celebrities","tag-city-of-los-angeles","tag-double-breasted","tag-dress","tag-earring","tag-embellished-dress","tag-embellishment","tag-entertainment","tag-evening-gown","tag-film-industry","tag-film-premiere","tag-formalwear","tag-full-suit","tag-gabardine","tag-movies","tag-necktie","tag-nylon","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-plunging-neckline","tag-poplin","tag-prada","tag-premiere-event","tag-red-carpet-event","tag-satin","tag-satin-suit","tag-shiny","tag-shirt","tag-sleeveless","tag-sleeveless-dress","tag-sony","tag-spider-man-no-way-home","tag-suit","tag-three-quarter-length","tag-tom-holland-actor","tag-two-people","tag-two-tone-color","tag-two-toned-dress","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa","tag-valentino-designer-label","tag-vertical","tag-well-dressed","tag-white-color","tag-white-shirt","tag-zendaya-coleman"],"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\/998248","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=998248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}