LONDON (REUTERS) – British actor Tom Holland stated he’ll painting legendary movie star Fred Astaire in an upcoming Sony biopic, who’s greatest remembered for dancing and singing with late actress Ginger Rogers in a number of musicals, together with High Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936) and Shall We Dance (1937).
Famed as one of many biggest dancers of all time, Astaire had a seven-decade profession in movie and on stage in Broadway and the West Finish. He died in 1987 at 88.
“I’m enjoying Fred Astaire. The script got here in per week in the past. I have never learn it but. They have not given it to me,” Holland stated.
“Amy Pascal has the script,” he stated, referring to Spider-Man producer Pascal. “She FaceTimed me earlier. I used to be within the bathtub and we had a beautiful FaceTime.”
Holland, 25, was talking at a photocall for Spider-Man: No Means Residence, which he attended together with his co-star Zendaya, additionally 25, in London on Sunday (Dec 5).
The 2 are relationship. The pair talked of their love for what they referred to as the Spider-Man household.
Zendaya, who performs MJ within the movie, stated she was glad to have met Holland whereas engaged on the film.
The pair are relationship in actual life in addition to within the newest story on the large display screen, which revolves round Spider-Man’s true id being revealed for the primary time.
“One of the particular elements of all that is the very fact I received to fulfill Tom Holland. So I’m extremely eternally grateful to Spider-Man for that. And he is clearly very proficient and a beautiful individual,” Zendaya stated.
Holland is on his third Spider-Man movie and spoke of the final six years, saying Spider-Man was such an enormous a part of his life he couldn’t bear in mind a time earlier than enjoying the function.
The movie is already doing nicely in British field workplace pre-sales, however Holland stated the pandemic meant the strain for the movie to succeed was totally different this yr.
“Folks won’t really feel snug going to the theatre and that is okay, if that is your prerogative I’ll help that,” he stated.
Spider-Man: No Means Residence opens in Singapore cinemas on Dec 16.