Tom Holland hopes for Spider-Man/Daredevil team-up

Spider-Man: No Way Home was a monumental movie. It broke box-office records, brought heroes and villains from past Spider-Man movies in on its multiversal madness, and has even netted 2002 Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe a Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel character.”

One other way that No Way Home stood out was that it featured Matt Murdock aka Daredevil, played by none other than Charlie Cox, who also played the character in the Netflix series Daredevil. Combined with Vincent D’Onofrio’s appearance on Hawkeye as the Kingpin, this solidified that the previously cancelled Netflix Marvel shows are officially part of the MCU. Fans rejoiced to see Charlie Cox back in the role, something they’d been asking for ever since the popular Netflix show was unceremoniously cancelled after its successful third season due to conflicting interests between Disney and Netflix.

They weren’t the only ones. Tom Holland recently sat down for a detailed interview with The Hollywood Reporter where he was asked about his experience filming with Cox. “Working with Charlie was incredibly exciting,” Holland said. “I was a big fan of the Daredevil series, and I think he’s a fantastic actor. He’s done a wonderful job with that character, and albeit it was a small cameo, it obviously teased the future of what could be. It was a real actors’ piece, that scene. We blocked the scene, which was essentially us just sitting there, and we read the lines. It was great. It felt like an actors’ workshop while working with people I really look up to, and Charlie was a lot of fun. It was really cool to see him snap back into a character that I am really a fan of and that he has a lot of love for, obviously. So it was pretty awesome, and I hope that one day we find a way for Spider-Man and Daredevil to team up again.”

Excuse us while we just go and imagine how fun that team-up would be. The Kingpin is now loose in Peter’s New York City…so anything’s possible.

Charlie Cox (Daredevil) wants to do more Marvel crossovers

For his part, it sounds like Cox himself is also fully on board for a Daredevil/Spider-Man adventure. “I feel so lucky to have been cast in that role and it is the gift that keeps on giving,” the actor told Supernova. “I loved every single minute of making the [Netflix] show. And so, to be asked to come back and to be involved in any capacity is absolutely thrilling to me. And I hope, I don’t want to sound greedy, but I hope I get to do loads more. I hope I get to be involved way, way more for many years. I hope it never ends. I hope it gets to the point where people are like, ‘You are too old to be playing this part.’”

"I don’t know what their plans are but yes, my hope is that I get to do as much as I’m allowed to do, and to be involved. The one thing that being in the MCU allows that we couldn’t really do with the Netflix stuff is that I can now interact with other MCU characters. So, that would be really cool. Crossovers is the thing I would like to do next. I don’t know what that looks like, and I don’t know what they’re planning and all that kind of stuff. But there are some really interesting stories there that I’d love for the character to explore."

Hopefully, it’s just a matter of time.

Emotional “thank you” moment from No Way Home was unscripted

Moving on from all things Charlie Cox, Holland also spoke a bit about how emotional the process of making Spider-Man: No Way Home was, from saying goodbye to longtime costars Zendaya (MJ) and Jacob Batalon (Ned) to working with previous Spider-Men Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire. As it turns out, there was one scene in particular that was not in the script that and came about organically because of how emotional the shooting experience was: the moment where Holland’s Peter Parker says “thank you, thank you, thank you” to Maguire and Garfield’s Spider-Men for helping him through the difficult events of the film.

“That moment was actually inspired by something that actually happened,” Holland explained. “We were on set shooting the rooftop scene where I meet the boys for the first time, 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. So I went up to the two boys 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. Thank you for elevating Spider-Man in the ways that you have. Thank you for being so gracious and allowing me to share this with you. Thank you for taking a leap of faith and coming back.’ Tobey hadn’t acted in nearly 10 years, so we all embraced each other, and we were all crying because it meant so much to us. And Jon Watts, Amy Pascal and the writers saw this moment between the three of us and were like, ‘Brilliant! Well, now we know how they’re going to say goodbye to each other.’ So essentially, we just reshot that very real moment between the three of us.”

According to Holland, Spider-Man: No Way Home also allowed him to lay to rest something he had been regretting since he took over the role in 2017: that he had never contacted previous Spider-Man Andrew Garfield to talk about the transition. Garfield starred in two The Amazing Spider-Man films before the studio cancelled plans for a third, leaving the character in an odd limbo after the cliffhanger ending of the second movie. Fans have been making their support known for Garfield’s return since No Way Home’s release, and Holland is right there with them.

"I could not be happier for [Andrew Garfield]. Something I can look back on now with a little bit of clarity and regret is that I never called him when I took over as Spider-Man. Had someone said to me after my second movie that I was done and this other kid was taking over, I would’ve been heartbroken. So looking back, I wish I had the chance to make amends with him, but this film was our opportunity. It was not only an opportunity for him to make peace with the character and the studio, but it was also an opportunity for me and him to have this moment where we realize we could share this thing. The look on his face when he saves Zendaya [MJ] is totally genuine, and I’m really proud of him. I’m really chuffed that he got this opportunity to win back the world and for people to be reminded that his Spider-Man movies are fantastic and brilliant in their own right."

Spider-Man: No Way Home is on the verge of surpassing Avatar to become the third highest grossing film ever in the U.S. At this rate, the film will still be in theaters right up until Holland’s next movie Uncharted debuts on February 18.

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