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Tom Holland is the beloved Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in the MCU, but the English actor might not have landed the role if it weren’t for the Russo brothers—Joe and Anthony Russo. The directors had to fight with Sony to cast him as Peter. Keep scrolling for more.
How Tom Holland Became MCU’s Web-Slinging Hero
Tom Holland appeared as the web-slinging superhero for the first time in MCU’s Captain America: Civil War, directed by the Russo brothers. Tom then had his solo film the following year and appeared in the Avengers movies. His films are placed in the Sony-shared Marvel universe, and the last one earned a billion dollars released in the last leg of 2021.
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In an interview with British GQ, the Avengers: Endgame directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo opened up about their meeting with Sony when they were adamant about hiring Tom Holland as Spider-Man in the MCU. They clarified that Marvel Boss Kevin Feige was in favor of their decision. Joe said, “We talked with Feige at Marvel about Holland, and he got excited, and then we went to Sony… And they were like, ‘Let’s think about it for a minute.’ We could tell we were meeting resistance from Sony. So we brought [Holland] back, brought him back, brought him back, and we were relentless in our pursuit of jamming him down the throat of the studio who owns this IP. It came down to a fight, yet Sony just kept dragging their feet.”
