The Making Of The MCU: 17 Fascinating Behind-The-Scenes Details You Need To Know

6. Tom Holland's Home Videos Were Turned Into Spider-Man Fight Scenes

Spider-Man: Homecoming
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One of the reasons Tom Holland makes such a great Spider-Man is that he has quite an athletic background, able to actually perform some of the flips and jumps that Spidey pulls off in the movies.

In fact, Holland's gymnastics were directly translated into the fight scenes for Spider-Man: Homecoming, with the actor sending director Jon Watts home videos of his various moves, which were then used as a basis for the action:

"From day one, I just wanted to make sure Jon used me in the most efficient way possible, and I already had a gymnastics background. So the big conversation with Jon was me sending him videos of tricks, moves, and fight scenes that my brothers and I were doing in the garden. Then I'd come to set, and they'd built a fight scene around my back-garden video, which was a really cool and unique thing for someone in my position to be able to do."

This ensured that the fight scenes felt authentic to Holland's portrayal, even when a stunt double/CG-Spidey was substituted in.

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