Florence Pugh Thanks Tom Holland for Spider-Man Brand New Day Casting
The Hollywood Reporter • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Florence Pugh credits Tom Holland for her role in the hit film Spider-Man: Brand-New Day, noting that Holland expressed a desire to work with her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which helped spark her casting.
- Holland publicly praised Pugh at the 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home premiere, highlighting her performance in Black Widow and suggesting a Spider-Man and Black Widow crossover, which excited fans and helped initiate the project.
- Sadie Sink, Pugh’s co-star, revealed she learned about her casting in the film through online fan theories, which turned out to be accurate shortly before she was officially asked to join the cast.
- Spider-Man: Brand-New Day, starring Holland, Zendaya, Sink, and Jon Bernthal, has become the highest-grossing domestic film with over $950 million and ranks third worldwide with $2.49 billion in box office revenue.
- Sony Pictures is planning a theatrical rerelease of the film featuring new footage, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
