10 Ridiculously AWKWARD Moments You Won't Believe Happened On Movie Sets
1. Tom Holland Met Robert Downey Jr.'s Stunt Double - Captain America: Civil War
When Spider-Man made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut back in Captain America: Civil War, no one could have predicted just how much of an impact his relationship with Tony Stark would have on the Infinity Saga on the whole. The entire reason Iron Man decided to help with the Time Heist in Avengers: Endgame, was because he had lost Peter Parker on Titan.
Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. have a strong relationship off-screen as well as on-screen. However, you wouldn't have guessed it after their first meeting, which happened during the former's Spider-Man screen test.
As a relative unknown stepping into a movie franchise as big as the MCU, with stars like Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland being nervous is completely understandable. Such nerves clearly got the better of him when he met the Iron Man actor for the first time. Or at least, who he thought was the Iron Man actor.
As it turns out, the man Tom Holland went and introduced himself to, and shook the hand of, wasn't actually Robert Downey Jr.; it was his stunt double. Imagine the embarrassment. At least Holland was able to get his nerves of meeting RDJ out of the way with someone who just looked like him before actually meeting the real thing.