“What people will be really surprised about is that it’s not fun, this film,” reveals Holland. “It’s dark and it’s sad, and it’s going to be really affecting. You’re going to see characters that you love go through things that you would never wish for them to go through. And I was just really excited to kind of lean into that side of Peter Parker.”
“Peter Parker is always someone who’s looking up,” continues Holland. “He’s always really positive. He’s always like, ‘I can fix this. I can do this.’ Whereas in this film, he feels like he’s met his match. He’s like, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ That was an aspect of the character that I’d never seen before, and I was really, really excited to try to tackle.”
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Indeed, while Holland is most likely set for further web-swinging in the MCU and Sony’s MCU-adjacent Spidey spinoffs, this film is clearly set to turn a prominent page, especially when it comes to Peter’s inner circle. This idea was made especially clear in his recollection of shooting the last scene with Zendaya and Batalon, which he described as “heartbreaking, but also really exciting because we’re all moving into the next chapter of our careers,” and also called it “the best day I’ve ever had on set. I don’t think I’ve cried like that ever.”
