“I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.”
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Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
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“I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.”
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“I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.”
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“On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.”
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“My big thing was when you see a superhero movie where their powers ain't consistent - like, they lift a truck but then struggle to fight just a regular human being - it makes it harder to be...”
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“I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.”
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“It's very easy to relate to a kid who is having trouble in high school... less so to relate to a billionaire whose Lamborghini broke down.”
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“When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always knew that I wanted to have a future in the performing arts. I had no idea that it was going to be a...”
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“I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.”
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“I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and gettin...”
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“It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.”
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“I'm a London boy, born and bred, and I'll be there for as long as I can.”
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“There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff. But you couldn't hit me hard enough to stop me from doing it.”
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“Bullies now aren't just jocks. They're rich kids in the nice cars with the fancy clothes.”
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“There is so much to sailing a ship. There's about a thousand different lines on a brig ship, and knowing what each one of those does, it takes a long time, and that's why you have these cabi...”
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“I was terrified watching 'Civil War' for the first time.”
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“'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.”
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“I actually have videos on my phone of me interviewing people and asking them what they thought of the new Spider-Man in 'Civil War.' They were like, 'Oh he's great. I love him,' and then som...”
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“I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.”
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“Spider-Man has always been a huge part of my life. I love the movies. I love the comics. And I always just wanted to be Spider-Man.”
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“I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.”
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