Tom Holland Was Drunk And Cried When He Spoke To Disney About The Spider-Man Drama

It's a little unorthodox, but hey, it worked!

By now, you definitely know the story of how Spider-Man was briefly kicked out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Sony and Disney had a big falling out.

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The brief version is that Sony and Marvel struck a deal in 2015 so that Spider-Man could appear in the MCU. However, when the studios couldn't reach an agreement for a third stand-alone movie, all hell broke loose.

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According to reports at the time, Disney wanted a 50/50 split of the profits in exchange for cofinancing the movie, a deal that Sony wouldn't agree to. So, with neither studio budging, Spider-Man (who is owned by Sony), was cut from future Marvel movies.

However, after an outcry from fans, Sony and Marvel renegotiated a deal and, voilà, Spider-Man was back.

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Rumours at the time of the drama said that Tom Holland, who of course plays Spider-Man, was instrumental in getting the superhero back into the MCU and had even contacted Disney boss Bob Iger.

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Bob confirmed the rumours, revealing Tom had taken matters into his own hands and reached out.

But what we didn't know was that Tom was actually drunk when he took the call with Bob Iger, which somehow makes this story even better.

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“We were at D23 and the news had come out and I was obviously devastated,” Tom told Jimmy Kimmel in a recent interview. “I was really upset. All my Marvel friends were there and they were taking Marvel pictures and I was like, not allowed to be in them. It was awful.”

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I'm sorry, but the thought of Tom Holland watching all of his Marvel costars take pictures together without him is BREAKING me.

Anyway, after emailing Bob to say thank you for everything, the Disney boss suggested that they jump on a call to talk about things and see if they could work something out.

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There was just one small problem — when Bob called a couple of days later, Tom was in the pub and a little merry.

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"My family and I went to the pub quiz in our local town," Tom revealed. "We're doing a quiz and I'm like, three pints in, haven't eaten much, and I get a phone call from an unknown number."

With some encouragement from his dad to just take the call anyway, Tom answered and had a chat with Bob about Spider-Man, which kickstarted the talks that sorted the mess out.

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"I basically just said thank you for the opportunity, and then he said, 'There's a world in where we can make this work,'" Tom said. "Then there was a bunch of phone calls back and forth from Tom Rothman [chair of Sony Pictures] — he was really instrumental in the process."

Tom even got emotional on the call with Bob because he "felt like it was all coming to an end" with Spider-Man and the MCU.

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"We had a really good plan with what we were gonna do with Sony, the future of Spider-Man was still very bright, but it would've been a shame to take him out the MCU," Tom said.

He added: "That's where he belongs, and we've built such a strong character in that world, and it would've been a shame to lose that. But I'm just really glad that we managed to work it out."

Couldn't have said it better myself. You can watch Tom's full interview with Jimmy Kimmel here.