{"id":502883,"date":"2026-06-16T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502883\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:50:10","slug":"tom-holland-suggests-adolescence-star-as-his-spider-man-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/502883\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland Suggests Adolescence Star as His Spider-Man Successor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Holland has once again discussed passing the Spider-Man torch to another, younger actor, this time suggesting the star of Adolescence for the iconic role.<\/p>\n

In a profile published in Esquire<\/a>, Holland singled out Owen Cooper, the 16-year-old British actor who played teenage murder suspect Jamie Miller in last year\u2019s Netflix megahit, Adolescence, as the potential next Peter Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201cOwen Cooper would be awesome,\u201d Holland said. \u201cObviously he\u2019s super-talented and the talk of the town right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Holland said he wanted to help set up a new era for the Spider-Man franchise<\/a>, shepherding in a fresh Spider-Man, or Spider-Woman, as his replacement. “For whoever’s next, whether that is a Miles Morales or a Spider-Gwen or a Spider-Woman or something like that, I would love to be a part of setting up the next chapter,” Holland told Empire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The big question is, how many more Spider-Man movies does the 30-year-old Tom Holland have left in him? He\u2019s in next month\u2019s Brand New Day, of course, but he\u2019s not yet confirmed for either this December\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday or next year\u2019s Avengers: Secret Wars, although it\u2019s hard to imagine Spider-Man failing to show up at some point. Could Brand New Day mark the beginning of the end for Holland\u2019s time as Spider-Man?<\/p>\n

There is a danger of reading too much into these sorts of comments. Some expect Brand New Day will begin a fresh trilogy for Holland\u2019s Spider-Man. Indeed, Holland has himself suggested he hopes to return several more times<\/a>. Still, he can\u2019t play Spider-Man forever. There will come a time when Sony and Marvel Studios have to replace Holland as Spider-Man, perhaps the most bankable superhero in the world. After all, the billion dollar Spider-Man movies must continue.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, in the same interview with Esquire, Holland confirmed his marriage to Spider-Man co-star Zendaya, although he refused to offer any details. Zendaya plays Michelle Jones Watson in Holland\u2019s Spider-Man movies.<\/p>\n

Photo by Pablo Cuadra\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Holland has once again discussed passing the Spider-Man torch to another, younger actor, this time suggesting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-502883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}