Tom Holland Just Revealed Peter Parker’s Ultimate Christopher Nolan Watchlist, And It’s Exactly What You’d Expect
Tom Holland has spent the better part of this year living a double life on the biggest possible scale, swinging between Queens as Peter Parker and sailing the Aegean as Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’ The actor has been remarkably open about how much the experience shaped him, telling THR that working with Nolan meant witnessing a director who stays involved in every piece of creative work tied to a film, not just the shoot itself.
That kind of admiration has clearly stuck with him, and it recently spilled into something a little more fun than another set story. Fans have been buzzing over both Nolan projects colliding this summer, since ‘The Odyssey’ hits theaters on July 17 while ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ follows just two weeks later on July 31.
That overlap set the stage for the moment fans are now talking about online. When Holland was asked which Christopher Nolan movie Peter Parker himself would call a favorite, he didn’t hesitate, naming ‘Inception,’ ‘Interstellar’ or ‘The Dark Knight’ as the likely picks, and joking that it would be fascinating to watch a superhero sit down and watch a superhero movie.
It is a playful answer, but it fits neatly into the larger story of Holland’s summer. He has said that his time on ‘The Odyssey’ left him a changed performer, and even the notoriously guarded Nolan has been in on the fun. At the Mumbai premiere of the film, Nolan joked to the crowd that if audiences only had time for one Tom Holland movie this summer they would just have to pick, referencing the actor’s own Spider-Man history along the way before joking about being “a long way from home.”
Holland has credited Nolan’s meticulous process with pushing him to demand more transparency on his own sets, telling one outlet that working alongside the director convinced him to start asking Marvel producers why a given scene or movie was being made in the first place rather than just showing up and figuring it out.
He has called the entire experience on ‘The Odyssey’ the best job of his career, and it clearly left a mark on how he approached returning to the Spidey suit for ‘Brand New Day.’
With ‘The Odyssey’ casting Holland alongside Matt Damon, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson, and ‘Brand New Day’ bringing him back into Destin Daniel Cretton’s take on Peter Parker, it makes sense that Nolan’s filmography would be on his mind. Whether Peter Parker would really pick ‘Inception’ over ‘The Dark Knight’ is up for debate, but it says a lot that even in character, Holland’s instincts point straight back to Nolan.
So which Nolan film do you think Peter Parker would actually put on repeat, and does Holland’s pick match how you imagine your favorite web slinger unwinding after a long night of crime fighting?
