Tom Holland Says He’ll Leave Movies When He Has Kids

Before he was Spider-Man, Tom Holland was a kid taking dance classes in Wimbledon. Then came eight rounds of auditions, a grueling first movie, and a carpentry course that gave him a reality check. This Fame & Ruin documentary follows his path from Billy Elliot to Marvel, the auditions and awkward moments along the way, and the pressure that came with becoming a star. Through clips of Holland telling his own story, from his nerve-racking audition with Robert Downey Jr. to the strain of acting and producing, we also look at his relationship with Zendaya, the pressure of The Crowded Room, his time away from acting, sobriety, and why he's said he'd step away from movies when he has kids. #TomHolland #SpiderMan #Zendaya #BillyElliot #TheOdyssey #FameAndRuin Sources & Credits Research: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, GQ, Men's Health, Esquire, Collider, NBC New York, SYFY, BroadwayWorld, and Nation.Cymru. Box office: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/blog/2026... ; https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3376... Footage: Sony Pictures, Marvel, Universal, Warner Bros., Netflix, Apple TV, BBC, ABC, NBC, Access Hollywood, BAFTA, DP World Tour, Comedy Central, and source interviews. Images (cropped/animated): Archive frame: Billy Elliot TV performance, 2009:    • Tom Holland - Billy Elliot (31/01/2009)   nagi usano from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bo... Bxsstudent, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Br... Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ke... Chris Hemsworth as Owen Chase — In the Heart of the Sea (2015):    • In the Heart of the Sea - Final Trailer [HD]   Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To... MTV International - YouTube, CC BY 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To... Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sp... Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ja... Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:41... Law Roach, Actor Awards interview (2026):    • Did Law Roach Just REVEAL Zendaya & Tom Ho...   Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ro... Christopher William Adach from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St... Archive frame: Tom Holland backstage, c. 2009:    • Tom Holland - Billy Elliot (28/03/2009)   Tom Holland in The Impossible (2012):    • The Impossible Official International Trai...   Archive frame: Tom Holland rehearsing, c. 2009:    • Tom Holland - Billy Elliot (28/03/2009)   Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ze... CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa... CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa... CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa... Music: Beyond the Spotlight — Flow Music / woodsailor A Life of His Own — Flow Music / woodsailor The Weight of Being Seen — Flow Music / woodsailor Original interview excerpts in this version: Late Night with Seth Meyers (2017):    • Tom Holland Mistook a Stunt Double for Rob...   Jimmy Kimmel Live (2019):    • How Tom Holland Drunkenly Saved Spider-Man   Extra (2023):    • Tom Holland REVEALS He's Taking a Year Off...   Additional archive images and footage in v14: Holland family photograph: The Brothers Trust, https://nikki-holland-mh6k.squarespace.com... Dominic Holland photograph: official author website, https://www.dominichollandbooks.com/ Billy Elliot stage archive (2010):    • Tom Holland : My brief clips of Tom : Bill...   Additional v15 visual material: Lynne Page portrait: https://www.lynnepage.com/ (official website; separate image reuse permission not verified). Six AI-generated illustrative reconstructions: reading, dance-class enrollment, community festival, theatre entrance, audition waiting, backstage preparation. Generated for this video with OpenAI image generation; identified on screen as illustrations. They are not archival photographs.