Spider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland weaves a new web in Hollywood

Five years ago Tom Holland told an interviewer he would be the next Spider-Man. He tells Gemma Dunn how he never expected to don the red costume so soon.

IF HIS trophy cabinet is anything to go by, Tom Holland is quickly emerging as one of Hollywood’s brightest young talents.

At just 16, the Londoner — a former BRIT School alumni — proved his chops as an actor when he landed his first big screen role in Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible, opposite Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, and went on to be named Breakthrough Actor of the Year by the National Board of Review and Young British Performer of the Year at the London Film Critics Circle Awards.