Tom Holland Did Improvised Flips For His Spider-Man Audition
Tom Holland improvised with real flips during his audition to play Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War. By now, Tom Holland's Peter Parker is well-known since he's appeared in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including Infinity War and Endgame, as well as his solo trilogy of Spider-Man movies. His latest entry, 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which a multiversal rift sees him team up with Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire's Peter Parkers to fight villains from previous universes, made so much at the domestic box office that it toppled Avatar's record-breaking gross.
But before he was a box office juggernaut, Tom Holland made his MCU debut as Spider-Man in a surprise appearance during the airport fight sequence in 2016's Civil War. Rather than introducing him in his own origin story film, the movie saw Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark recruit an already spider-powered Parker to join him on his side as a schism split the Avengers. Before taking on Spider-Man, Holland's biggest onscreen credit was in a minor role opposite Chris Hemsworth in the seafaring drama In the Heart of the Sea.
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On the YouTube channel Corridor Crew, Marvel stuntmen James Young and Gui DaSilva-Greene sat down to discuss some of the most iconic MCU moments that they worked on. Young reveals that he was the stunt person in charge of the auditions for Spider-Man and was blown away when Holland started doing flips on the "air track" they had set up in the rehearsal space. When Holland asked if he could do flips in his audition, Young told him no, because "if you flip and fall, that’s my career." However, Holland asked for permission again during the audition
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