Spider-Man: Homecoming - 26 New Things We Just Learned

Given that JK Simmons is now in the DCEU, and is still the best option to play JJJ, that's a smart move all round.

6. Tom Holland Went To School Undercover

As well as Michael Keaton getting inspiration from a couple of young fangirls, Tom Holland also sought some lessons from kids in Queens to get more of a feel for his character. He was sent undercover to a local school to observe and adopt the school kids' behaviour to inform his performance as Peter Parker:

"Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for like three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in with all the kids, and some of the teachers didn’t even know. It was a science school, and I am in no way a science student [laughter]. Some of the teachers would call me up in front of the class and try to get me to do science equations and stuff – it was so embarrassing. But it was actually really informative because schools in London are so different. I would go to school every day in a suit and tie, with just boys. To be in a school where you can be free and let loose, and be with girls, it was so different. Like SO different. But yeah, it was a really great experience."

He got away with it too - probably because he wasn't actually as famous as most of the rest of the MCU. And who really expects Spider-Man to be a kid in your school really, anyway?

"Nobody knew. I actually have videos on my phone of me interviewing people, and asking them what they thought of the new Spider-Man in Civil War. They were like, Oh he’s great, I love him, and then some people were like, Nah, I don’t love him, he’s not great – and I was standing right in front of them! [laughter] But yeah, no, it was fun. It was really fun."

Holland also revealed what he had to go through to get the role:

"My audition scene, God. The first three weren’t from Spider-Man, they were from, um, it might have been from Whiplash, one of the scenes. The scene between Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. Then there were a few Spider-Man scenes, and it was funny because my agents at one point were like, we don’t know who you’re auditioning for. I was like, But my lines are for Spider-Man – so who else could I possibly be auditioning for? They were like; we don’t know. So I sort of clocked on then that it was for Spider-Man, but they were so sort of made-up scenes. Nothing from the movie. But then my final audition with Robert was a scene that was in Civil War between the two of us."