For several movies, Marvel has been establishing Holland as the new center of Marvel’s world. The stakes for No Way Home are even higher. “But for me it is, ‘Can I do it without the Lycra?’ ” “This is that moment of, like, ‘Can Tom Holland stand up on his own and be a leading man?’ I know that makes me sound like a dick for saying that,” says Holland. In December he’ll star in Spider-Man: No Way Home, a film that Holland himself has called “the most ambitious stand-alone superhero movie ever made.” Then there is February’s Uncharted, a slick, *Indiana Jones–*y adaptation of the best-selling PlayStation franchise.
The next few months promise to be hectic even by Holland’s standards. The outside world has a way of forcing itself back in. “ ‘Dad, how do I put the washing machine on?’ ” Last night a skylight broke in bad weather, flooding his kitchen. “I find myself ringing my dad for stuff that I should definitely know how to do,” he says.
So he’s enjoying some state-enforced time to himself. “Since I got cast as Spider-Man, I haven’t really taken a break,” Holland says.
