Wait, Tom Holland isn’t allowed to have his own Spider-Man suit? That’s wild! He is Spider-Man – if anyone should get suit privileges, it’s the actor. However, I just came across a story he once told about what happened when he tried to leave the set of one in character, and wow!
When Holland was filming Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was his sixth appearance as Spidey, he tried to go home dressed as the Marvel hero. In his words:
On the last day I was like ‘I’m leaving in this,’ and if you want it, you’re going to have to take it off me. And, they took it off me.
How funny is that? You’d think Holland might have earned the privilege to go home in his Spider-Man suit by then, but that wasn’t the case when he tried. As he added to SiriusXM:
There’s more than several. There’s at least 60 of those things, but they are incredibly expensive. They are valuable assets. I will take them one day.
Holland first earned the role of Spider-Man for Captain America: Civil War in 2016, and he had a bunch of extra suits made back then. And there have been many variants of it over the years. It’s pretty surprising that Marvel still wouldn’t spare one for Holland. It would have been pretty entertaining to see this go down on the set of No Way Home. I wish a camera was on him during this moment.
Tom Holland may not have ownership over his Spider-Man suits, but he did share a pretty sweet idea about where he’d like some extras to live. He gave Olympic Studios a shoutout, which is located in Barnes, London, not too far from where the Holland family grew up in Kingston upon Thames. As Holland also said during the interview:
I like the idea of taking them – we have a beautiful local cinema called The Olympic, and it’s one of our favorite places to go as a family. And I would love to get the suits and kind of donate them there so that they can put them up like a little museum.
So, what’s the moral of this story? Tom Holland really wants to own at least a few of his Spider-Man suits, and he’s pleading for them, as he said:
So, if you’re listening Sony: Give me my Spider-Man suits.
Across his Spider-Man movies, there’s been a ton of suit variants to account for. There was the homemade suit (with the blue hoodie) and the Tony Stark-upgraded one from Civil War and Homecoming. Then, there was the Iron Spider Suit, the “Night Monkey” stealth suit, and the new one from Brand New Day, which he called “a lot comfier” than other ones. And, a few more in between that we haven’t mentioned. How is it that Holland seemingly doesn’t own one?
Perhaps now that Brand New Day has scored the biggest first week at the box office… ever, Holland deserves one? Like, the movie is only a week old, and it’s already made around $1.19 billion worldwide. And that’s without mentioning how much we collectively liked it.
Per the Brand New Day post-credits scene, we know Spider-Man is set to return. Maybe he’ll walk off one of these upcoming Marvel movies with a suit on? It certainly sounds like the actor is hoping for that day to come.
