GQ Magazine Summer Cover Features THE ODYSSEY’s Leading Men: Next, TOM HOLLAND!

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GQ today revealed its summer issue cover story, featuring the leading men of Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY: Next, Tom Holland!

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On experience Nolan’s directing method…

“Chris doesn’t fake anything. Everything’s real. Everything you’re reaching to is what he wants your visceral human response to.”

Reflecting on his start in Hollywood and fast rise to fame…

“I was obviously drinking back then. I probably was enjoying myself a lot and was right in the middle of the Spider-Man run, which was the time of my life. I was falling in love. I was making movies that I was really proud of. I was building a career that I was really excited about. And then now I have had this amazing moment where I feel like I got to hit the reset button”—Holland has since gotten sober—“and end the chapter of being a kid in Hollywood.”

Pressing pause on — and finding purpose in — his career…

“I needed a break, and I felt like I’d overworked and I needed to do some growing up in my personal life, which required me to have some time at home. And then also I just wanted to make sure that I was always in love with what I was doing. I think to do what we do, we’re so lucky, and the moment it becomes a chore, there’s something wrong. I don’t know if there was a moment where I doubted being in love with it, but it just felt a little bit like I was not doing my best work, because I was just going to work.”

On aging out of playing Spider-Man…

“I would love to pass the baton on, but I haven’t achieved that yet … I think the truth is that playing Spider-Man has been the joy of my life. I now kind of stand on the plinth of like, I’ll do it for as long as they’ll have me.”

– On Newsstands June 9 –

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