“Downey piped up and was like, ‘Where’d all the kid’s lines go?'”
Tom Holland remembersRobert Downey Jrstanding up for him big time.
The explanation was that the lines would need to be trimmed because the entire script was too long.
Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland photographed in 2020.Dave J Hogan/Getty
Iron Man didn’t give up.
“And Downey was like, ‘No, no, no.
You’re gonna want to spend some time on this,” Holland remembered Downey saying.
“Like, ‘Lets shoot the whole thing from the audition.
you could always cut it, but you’d wanna have it.'”
In the end, Holland said, “They used all of it.”
EW reported in September that Marvel wasclosing in on a directorfor a fourth installment of Holland’s Spider-Man movies.
They were eyeing Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of 2021’sShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
He spoke about a sequel on the podcast.
“It needs work, but the writers are doing a great job.
I read it three weeks ago, and it really lit a fire in me.
And that’s important to him.
“So, yeah, it’s a complicated one.”
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