Spidey eyes Bond role...
BRIT TOM AIMS FOR A LICENCE TO KILL
SPIDER-MAN star Tom Holland has hinted he may be in the running to be the next James Bond.
The 21-year-old Brit is about to swing into cinemas with his first solo outing as the wisecracking web-slinger.
Now he is setting his sights on becoming the youngest ever 007.
When the Daily Star Sunday quizzed him on his plans, he said: “There are so many rumours around the role – but what British guy wouldn’t want to play Bond?”
Daniel Craig, 49, is said to be mulling over an offer to play 007 for a fifth and final time.
Mad Max actor Tom Hardy, 39, is the favourite to take over, ahead of Poldark’s Aidan Turner, 33 and Alien star Michael Fassbender.
But in a recent interview with the Daily Star Sunday, Fassbender, 40, ruled himself out and suggested the job could be taken be a younger actor. “I would like to see Bond go back to the start,” he said. “And for that you need an actor in his 20s.”
Tom, who played the lead in the stage version of Billy Elliot, was still living in London with his parents when he bagged the role of Spider-Man, inset.
And he reckons his twinkle toes helped him take over the role previously played by Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire.
Tom said: “Initially I think they were impressed with my gymnastic skills.
“The wait to know if I was successful was tough. If I hadn’t been busy with other projects I would have gone crazy.” He made his Spider-Man debut with a cameo in last year’s Captain America: Civil War. Now Spider-Man: Homecoming takes the superhero back to his roots showing a young Peter Parker juggling maths homework with his secret life as crime-fighting vigilante. “Obviously, I have tried to make the role my own,” said Tom. “But I guess like Tobey’s Peter Parker, I am less cool – and then when I put on my Spider-Man suit I become a superhero who just really enjoys having my powers.” Spider-Man: Homecoming is in cinemas from July 5.