Tom Holland has been playing Peter Parker for a few years now in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, there was a time when Sony wasn’t on board with casting the now 24-year-old actor in the role as Spider-Man. “We talked with [president Kevin] Feige at Marvel about Holland and he got excited and then we went to Sony…” Joe Russo shared in a new interview with The Playlist. “And they were like, ‘Let’s think about it for a minute.’ We could tell we were meeting resistance from Sony.
So we brought [Tom] 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.
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