Tom Holland wants Owen Cooper to replace him as Spider-Man.
Holland’s Choice
The 30-year-old actor has portrayed the web-slinging superhero and his alter-ego Peter Parker ever since 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, and he is now thinking about who might wear the red and blue suit next.
Ahead of his fourth standalone Spider-Man movie, Brand New Day, which will drop on July 31st, Tom Holland told Esquire UK magazine, “Owen Cooper would be awesome. Obviously, he’s super-talented and the talk of the town right now.”
Cooper is best known for shooting to fame in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence, for which he won a Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, and BAFTA TV Award, as well as many other accolades.
Being a Mentor
Tom Holland would love to be a mentor to Cooper, or whoever is named as his successor, in a future Spider-Man movie.
He explained, “In the way that Robert Downey [Jr.] was such a mentor for me in my first three movies, I would love to be that person for whoever is next.”
But he admitted, “[It’s] pretty tough to get a producing credit on future movies.”
Last month, Holland told how he wants to help set up the “next chapter” of Spider-Man, and he hopes his character can have a significant impact on the next generation in the way Downey Jr.’s Iron Man was a father figure to him.
He told Empire magazine, “For whoever’s next, whether that is a Miles Morales or a Spider-Gwen or a Spider-Woman or something like that, I would love to be a part of setting up the next chapter. Whatever that looks like, I don’t know.”
“But, if I could do what Downey did for me, then I would be so content swinging off into the sunset.”
Having More Involvement
Tom Holland was proud to have more creative involvement in Spider-Man: Brand New Day than in previous films in the series.
He said, “This is the first time in my tenure as Spider-Man that I was kind of welcomed into the writers’ room [Me and the producers would] meet once every two weeks to pitch ideas and discuss our ambitions and what we wanted to try and do.”