The latest Spider-Man actor became a worldwide superstar after joining the Marvel franchise, and he’s not scared of being “the Spider-Man guy” for his entire life.
Many actors are afraid of being labeled for their roles and pigeonholed forever.
This is the exact reason why performers like Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson started actively growing apart from their most popular roles as soon as they got a chance, and most other actors who got famous for one performance do the same.
For Marvel, the pigeonholing is even more real: it’s no secret that the majority of the superhero actors have next to no careers outside of the Marvel Universe, and their standalone projects tend to flop massively.
Big-name agents often refer to superhero franchises as “the golden handcuffs” as they virtually trap their actors for good.
Even Marvel’s headliner Robert Downey Jr. who is considered one of the most famous and successful actors in the world is known as the Iron Man actor…
And that’s it, for the most part. Despite his fame and insane money from this role, Downey Jr.’s other movies seem to always bomb at the box office, and it’s scary.
For most popular actors, such fate seems terrifying, but some just embrace it. Take Tom Holland, for example.
Various critics, reviewers, and fans have been alerting the young actor that he would get stuck in those “golden handcuffs” of Marvel if he didn’t move from the franchise, but Tom didn’t care then — and he doesn’t care now.
This is not just our interpretation, too: the actor has publicly stated this himself recently.
“I’m not really concerned about being pigeonholed. I really look at my career from my own set of eyes and I worry less about what people think about whether or not they see me as Spider-Man,” said Tom.
It’s not that he doesn’t have ambitions: according to Holland, he thinks that he and his agents have been doing pretty well in the industry over the course of the last decade.
Still, he would be happy to keep playing Spider-Man even if it would be the last role he ever gets to play — and he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.
“If I just play Spider-Man for the rest of my life, I’d still be the luckiest kid alive. So, there’s no complaints from me here. As everyone knows, I love him. He changed my life.
I love the character. Should we find a way to tell his story and do justice to him, we will do so,” explained the actor addressing the potential new Spider-Man entry.
Combined with Tom Holland’s general disregard for reviews and opinions (which he’d openly shown in the past years), the actor’s attitude toward potential pigeonholing makes up for an interesting career to watch.
We’ll be sure to follow the actor to see where his acting policy takes him — and if it pays off in the end.
Source: Yahoo Entertainment
