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How Tom Holland Became Spider-Man

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s new Spider-Man opens up about disaster epic In the Heart of the Sea and how he won the gig of a lifetime.

Tom Holland is battle-tested. For his first film The Impossible, a dramatization of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that ravaged Southeast Asia, the scrawny Brit spent six weeks being tossed about like a ragdoll in a 35,000-gallon tank the size of a football field in order to nail its pivotal...

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