"When they cast the young kid to replace me, I’ll take it upon myself to teach them": Tom Holland on the great responsibility of playing Spider-Man

Tom Holland as Peter Parker unmasked and in the middle of a fight during a scene in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

With less than two weeks to go till Spider-Man: Brand New Day hits screens, anticipation is at fever pitch for the wall-crawler's latest outing. To celebrate, we've been revisiting Tom Holland's MCU back catalogue with a series of time capsule features – first with a look back at Spider-Man: Homecoming, followed by a contemporary report from the set of Spider-Man: Far From Home.

This latest piece, pulled from the December 2021 issue of Total Film magazine, just ahead of the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, is a fascinating insight into how Holland felt about shouldering the responsibility of Spider-Man for the world and how much he grew as a performer on Marvel sets. We've just about forgiven him for lying to us about whether Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire would appear in the film…