Tom Holland Says Robert Downey Jr. Saved His MCU Debut After Scene Was “Cut Down Significantly”

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Much like their onscreen counterparts, Robert Downey Jr. left quite the impression on Tom Holland. The Spider-Man actor recently recalled a gesture by MCU co-star that was “so great and so sweet” during his first day of filming Captain America: Civil War (2016) with Downey Jr. “I’m very grateful to Downey, but… When I did my audition, my audition was like eight pages of dialogue.

It was a long scene,” he recounted on the Rich Roll podcast. “Typically, an audition will be two pages.” But when he got to set for his first day, Holland noted, “My scene had been cut down significantly from what I’d done in the audition, to now, a page and a half or maybe even two pages. “We start shooting the scene, and Downey piped up and said, ‘Where’s all the kid’s line gone?'” he continued. “And the Russos sort of said, ‘Well look, this is already a 140-page script.

We can’t spend too much time on this.’ And Downey was the one that was like, ‘No, no, no, you’re going to want to spend some time on this.

Let’s shoot the whole thing from the audition. You can always cut it, but you’d want to have it.’ And they used all of it. So, I owe that to him.” Holland added, “I think that’s really cool, and I’d love to one day do that.