Andrew Garfield brought this up on his own to producers, director Marc Webb, and to Entertainment Weekly. This kind of reply should be the minimum people should expect from someone in the public eye in 2019.Īgain, let me stress the point that this question was put to Tom Holland in an interview. I’m not putting Tom Holland down as a person or a public figure here, but I am saying this is nothing to write home about compared to some other attempts to drum up representation by even other MCU actors. Hopefully it means something to kids who are only familiar with this actor’s iteration of Spider-Man who want to see themselves represented on screen. So faced with this question, this was about the only answer he could give without more massive backlash against the MCU for its lack of representation 20+ films in.
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But also, despite what a lot of his fans like to think, Tom Holland is not “just a kid” – he is a 23-year-old professional actor, and this is not his first press tour. “Tom Holland Says Spider-Man Can’t Be Gay” is a PR nightmare. It’s well-spoken, polite, and it’s good that he’s publicly supportive of the idea. Let me be totally clear: I think this comment from Tom Holland is nice. I can’t say for certain whether or not this question would be asked if Andrew Garfield hadn’t so vocally spoken out in favor of exploring Peter Parker’s sexuality in film – and then gotten so much backlash both from fans, and, he’s since revealed, push back from the studio – but I do think it’s less likely it would have come up.
This, to me, seems like a careful and diplomatic response to the question given the massive backlash the MCU has gotten over its lack of representation, particularly the Endgame “gay Joe Russo” debacle and the cutting of Tessa Thompson’s bisexual Valkyrie scene, and also in response to the discussion that the Andrew Garfield controversy generated. But I do know a lot about the future of Marvel, and they are going to be representing lots of different people in the next few years.” “I can’t talk about the future of the character because honestly I don’t know and it’s out of my hands. He went on to elaborate a little bit, and the whole thing is very diplomatic and more than a little vague: I’m going to sum up why I personally feel Tom Holland’s comment on the possibility of a gay Spider-Man is different than Andrew Garfield’s, starting with the context of the given quotes.įirst off, literally all Tom Holland said was that “of course” he would be okay with a gay Spider-Man when he was asked about it. I was on mobile the past two days and wanted to wait until I wasn’t tapping out replies on my phone, but in a word: yeah. like, we can imagine him being gay but not jewish? really?Īlso obviously no one has a monopoly on the idea but Andrew Garfield Did It First Y'all Wehavelightandfury asked: not to be a big bitter bitch but like, i'm seeing a bunch of articles about tom holland being "open" to the idea of spider-man being gay, and comparing that to that recent travesty of an interview, it just feels.