Did Tom Holland cry while filming an essential Spider-Man: No Way Home scene?(Photo Credit –Instagram)
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For Tom Holland, this scene was just too personal. “We were on set shooting the rooftop scene where I meet the boys for the first time,” Holland told Cheatsheet. “And before one of the takes … It must have been my close-up or something. It was one that really, really required me to bring the emotion to the shot.”
The setup was already surreal. Spider-Man: No Way Home brought together three generations of Spider-Men, Garfield, Maguire, and Holland, something fans had only dreamed about. The Multiverse cracked open, nostalgia poured in, and suddenly, Peter Parker wasn’t alone.
But while fans were freaking out, Holland was living a full-circle moment on set. “I went up to the two boys (Garfield and Maguire) on the level that they were standing, and I said to them, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this. Thank you for being here,’” Holland recalled (via Insider). “So we all embraced each other, and we were all crying because it meant so much to us.”
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That emotional moment? It wasn’t scripted. But it moved everyone behind the scenes. Director Jon Watts, producer Amy Pascal, and the writers saw it and instantly knew what to do. They decided to reshoot that exact embrace for the movie’s goodbye scene. The real became the reel.
Holland hadn’t always been this Spider-legend. Before stepping into the red-and-blue suit, he made waves with his performance in The Impossible back in 2012. That role put him on Marvel’s radar. By 2015, he was cast as the MCU’s Peter Parker, debuting in Captain America: Civil War just a year later.
From that moment, Holland brought a fresh, youthful energy to the iconic role. He went on to appear in Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Far From Home, and finally No Way Home, the one that changed everything.
No Way Home didn’t just break box office records. It broke emotional barriers. For Holland, sharing the screen with Garfield and Maguire was about more than multiverse magic. It was about legacy, gratitude, and saying goodbye.
That rooftop scene became a turning point. Holland wasn’t just Spider-Man anymore, he was part of Spider-Man history. And he felt every bit of it.
“It meant so much to us,” he said. That single moment, wrapped in emotion, summed up the weight of what they had created. For fans, it was epic. For Holland, it was unforgettable.
