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Captain America: Brave New World<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, Timothee was in the running to portray Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man. Based on their ages, you\u2019re likely not surprised that his main competition was Tom Holland<\/a>, who entered the MCU in 2016\u2032s Captain America: Civil War.<\/p>\n \u201cI read twice and I left sweating in a total panic,\u201d the actor told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cI called my agent, [UTA\u2019s] Brian Swardstrom, and I said, \u2018Brian, I thought about this a lot and I have to go back and knock on that door and read again,\u2019 and he told me the story of Sean Young and how in an attempt to become Catwoman had scared everyone away when she showed up at the studio gates in costume.\u201d<\/p>\n People<\/a> noted that Tom and his fianc\u00e9e and Spider-Man co-star Zendaya<\/a> had some thoughts about what role he could take if he were to join the franchise later.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n RELATED: 11 Actors Who Auditioned to Play Spider-Man But Didn\u2019t Book It, Including Oscar Winners, a Musician & Actors Who Landed Another Role Instead<\/a><\/p>\n \u00ab First<\/a>\u00ab Previous <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain America: Brave New World Once upon a time, Timothee was in the running to portray Peter Parker,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-370757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}