Tom Holland recalls 'hating' Spider-Man: Brand New Day cut
Tom Holland "hated" an early cut of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The 30-year-old actor has reprised the role of Spider-Man for the new movie, and Tom has recalled seeing various cuts of the film, before committing to the final edit.
The actor - who stars in the much-anticipated new movie alongside his wife Zendaya - told Quotable: "What’s really interesting is, we’ve seen loads of different cuts of this movie, and one of the cuts was, they took all of the notes from all of the random people that saw the film, and they changed the movie. And then, we watched it and we hated it."
The film star admits that the edit "totally didn’t work".
Tom also explained that a movie can change "in a thousand different ways in the edit room".
He said: "It totally didn’t work. And it’s what the people were asking for, but it wasn’t quite what we wanted as the creatives. But they learned lessons from that experience. So, a movie can change in a thousand different ways in the edit room."
Meanwhile, Destin Daniel Cretton recently explained the decision to keep Sadie Sink's role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day under wraps.
The 24-year-old actress stars alongside Tom, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, and Mark Ruffalo in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and the director recently reflected on the secrecy surrounding Sadie's part in the movie.
He explained to The Hollywood Reporter: "I don’t think there’s any way of trying to emulate the last movie. In terms of stakes, you can’t really go bigger than that last movie. So rather than trying to go bigger, we were hoping to go deeper in a different way."
Destin believes the reasons for the secrecy will become apparent when fans watch the movie.
The 47-year-old director - who previously helmed Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - said: "Keeping what Sadie’s doing under wraps, you’ll honestly understand when you see the movie. The movie is a better movie if you don’t know certain things. I wish people didn’t know anything when they go in to watch this movie, but we’re not doing it for any other reason but to protect the experience of the fans.
"I want everybody to have the best experience when they go watch this movie. And whoever goes on opening weekend, you are going to have a much cooler experience if you go in not knowing certain things."