-Our first guest tonight is a talented actor you know best
as Peter Parker from both the "Spider-Man" movies
and the "Avengers" franchise.
He returns in "Spider-Man: No Way Home,"
which premieres exclusively
in theaters and IMAX on December 17th.
Let's take a look.
-That's right, folks.
Spider-Man is in fact Peter Parker.
-Are you Spider-Man's girlfriend?
Are you Spider-Man's girlfriend?
-Whoa, it's him! -Uh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Please don't touch her, sir. -You're just a kid?
-You murdered Mysterio? -Uh...
-You helped him murder Mysterio?
-No, I didn't -- -Come on, let's see that face.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa!
-All this time, people looked up to this boy
and called him a hero.
Well, I'll tell you what I call him --
public enemy number one!
-No, no, no! I told you I never want to do this ever again!
-M.J., I'm so sorry,
but I can't see anything with your hand in my --
-Sorry, I'm sorry!
[ Breathing rapidly ]
[ Cellphone vibrates ] -Dude!
-Dude! -Dude!
-Dude!
-Dude! -[ Gasps ]
[ Laughter ]
-Please welcome back to the show Tom Holland, everybody!
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So nice to see you. -Dude!
-Dude! [ Laughter ]
I mean, I've been there. That's how I get mobbed
when I walk out of the studio. -It's tough, right?
-That was like watching a documentary about my life, yeah.
-Another day in the life. -Another day in the life.
It's so nice to have you here in studio.
Thanks for making the trip. -Mate, it's so good to be back.
Thank you for having me.
-I want to mention that I have not seen the film
because I understand, you know,
these Marvel things are tight-wrapped.
-Yes. -They sent me -- They said,
"Would you like to watch the first 40 minutes of the film?"
-Right. -I was like,
"I don't think I could do that.
I think it would just be too hard to only watch 40 minutes
and then have to wait."
-It's like a really, really offensive trailer.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-You know? It's really, really unfair, that.
We've been showing the press 40 minutes of the film.
-Yeah? -Just to kind of --
There's some really big stuff in this film that we want to keep
a secret just because this film really is the celebration
of three generations of cinema.
So we want to keep as much of it back as possible.
It has been really interesting only talking about
40 minutes of a movie, though. -Right.
-But it's been fun and the press have been really excited,
and it's been a really good press tour so far.
-Do you ever feel like you're in class
and the teacher's asked you if you read the whole book
and you're faking it?
They're like, "What was your favorite part
of 'Tale of Two Cities'?" "The beginning. Oh."
-Yes, right, right, right. -"Loved the beginning."
-That's like every movie I've ever done
that's based off of a book.
The director's like, "So, what did you think of the book?"
I'm like, "it's great. It's so like the script."
[ Laughter ] "It's so good." You know?
-You're like, "You know what? I think once I see the movie
we're about to make, I'll have a real understanding of the book."
[ Laughter ] -We're on the same page.
-I know you're about to go L.A. after this.
-Yes. -You just did some London,
and then you get to go home, thankfully, for the holidays.
Are you looking forward to going back, being with your family?
-I am. I am. I'm very stressed, though,
because, you know, naturally with a press tour,
you're very busy -- I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet.
-Yeah. -I don't think I can say to
my family that me coming back for Christmas
is enough of a gift. -Right.
-But it is, right? -Yeah, I mean, look.
-Come on. Who wants me to come over for Christmas?
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I want to say this -- no exaggeration.
If you came and spent Christmas with me, that would be enough.
-Right. Vice versa. -Yeah. Thank you.
-Are we doing this? Are we doing this?
-I think we're doing this. Honey...
[ Cheers and applause ]
Honey, tell the kids I'm not coming home.
I'm hanging out with Tom. [ Laughter ]
I was wondering about your family, 'cause I know
you're very close with your brothers
and your family in general, but they obviously understand
what you're going through as far as how busy you are.
-Right.
-But they're not gonna let you off the hook, are they?
-No. -Yeah.
-They're really not, and I'm gonna find myself Christmas Eve
running around like a headless chicken,
buying socks, tea towels. -Right.
-Meaningless stuff, you know?
Nice card. I'll write a nice card.
"Dear Mum, merry Christmas. Tom."
-You get a sweatshirt that says "Heathrow."
-Yeah, exactly! Yeah. "I love New York."
[ Laughter ]
-"These are very rare.
This is the only replica Statue of Liberty they ever made."
-It cost me a whole $9.
-We also talked backstage about that you were very lucky to do
back-to-back films where you managed to get through
without any COVID shutdowns. -Yes.
-Which is very hard this day and age but possible
because people take it so seriously, right?
The COVID protocols in place are massive.
-I mean, it's important, and I think, you know,
when it comes to something like that,
the rules really stem from the top, you know?
Playing Spider-Man on set, you have a responsibility to follow
the rules so that everyone else
sees you doing it so they copy you.
That said, there were times
that we would have a bit of fun with it.
I remember in the Spider-Man suit,
because the thing is so tight, the zip sometimes gets stuck.
And it's a nightmare. I'll have like half of it off,
and I'm like, "Please, just get this thing off of me."
And we have a bottle of lube that we, like, squirt on
the zip to, like, get it open and stuff.
-Yeah, that's why we have one, too, yeah.
-That's why we have bottles of lube.
-Yeah, because zippers. -Right.
But anyway, we were on set, and Mitch Bell was there.
Mitch Bell is one of our big Marvel producers.
He's in charge of the money, so, you know, like, a COVID shutdown
for him is a very serious thing
and he's taking it very seriously.
And this bottle of lube does suspiciously
look like a bottle of hand sanitizer.
So, he walks over and he's chatting to me, and he's like,
"Hey, man, can I get some of that hand sanitizer?"
And I look at my brother Harry,
and I'm like, "This is about to be golden."
[ Laughter ]
So, I'm squeezing all this stuff on him.
I'm squeezing it, squeezing it, squeezing it, and he walks off,
and you can see him on set like,
"This goddamn hand sanitizer won't go."
[ Laughter ]
And then the best thing -- At the end of the day,
the same thing happened with the boom op.
So, he's doing a scene, and I can see him like this.
He's like, "I can't hold on to the boom."
[ Laughter ] "It's so slippery everywhere."
I promise that's the only two times we did it, though.
-That's right.
The idea of you half in a Spider-Man suit, I don't know --
Have you ever gone to the "Sesame Street" studios?
-I have not. -'Cause the one thing
they tell you is, like, you cannot take any photos of,
like, the muppets, like, at rest, right,
'cause it would be too terrifying for children.
-Sitting there with a beer, like, smoking a cigarette.
-Or it's just like, you know, like that.
[ Laughter ] -Right, right, right.
Just a dead muppet. -Yeah.
I feel like the same about -- like, I would never want to see
a photo of, like, Spider-Man half in and out of his suit,
just having given up.
-It's not attractive. It's not flattering.
And it also comes with a lot of me being like,
"Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"
I've got, like, the neck stuck over my mouth.
I'm suffocating. Director's giving me notes.
It's just -- It's a tough time.
-Well, the good news is it pays off on screen.
We're going to be right back
with more from Tom Holland after this.