Tom Holland says he'll quit Spider-Man if his one condition isn't met

Tom Holland has revealed the one condition that must be met to get him to return to Spider-Man.

The British actor has had several outings as Peter Parker/Spider-Man - first appearing back in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, he reprised the role the following year for Spider-Man: Homecoming, becoming the youngest actor to play a title role in an MCU film.

As well as appearing in two sequels - Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home - Holland also starred in Avengers: Infinity Wars, Avengers: Endgame and in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it mid-credit scene in Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

His most recent return to the MCU - in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home - was a box office smash, pulling in almost $2 billion against a budget of $200 million.

In a recent interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, Holland spoke about the possibility of stepping back into the MCU and admitted that he loves the character.

“If I just played Spider-Man for the rest of my life, I’d still be the luckiest kid alive,” he revealed.

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But it seems that when it comes to appearing in a fourth sequel, Holland has some reservations.

When asked if would be swooping back in to play the web-slinger in the future, he said: “I’m going to have to plead the fifth there, because I’m not prepared to start talking about the future of Spider-Man - as everyone knows, I love him, he changed my life. I love the character.

“Should we find a way to tell his story and do justice to him, we will do so, but if we can’t find a way to do that… if we can’t find a way to compete with the third one, then he’ll swing off into the sunset.”

Fair enough.

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And even if he does fancy returning to the role, it’s unlikely to be any time soon, with the star recently announcing that he would be taking a short career break after filming AppleTV mini-series The Crowded Room ‘broke’ him.

The actor said that while he ‘enjoyed’ filming the dark psychological series, it had been intense.

So much so that Holland said he took a week off afterwards to ‘lay low’ on a sunny beach, but now plans to take an even bigger chunk of time away from acting.

He continued: “I disappeared, I went to Mexico for a week and had some time on a beach and lay low.

“And I’m now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was.”

Topics: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man, Tom Holland, Celebrity, Film and TV

Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at UNILAD who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats.