Tom Holland's Spider-Man tattoo caused unexpected issue on Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Tom Holland has the Spider-Man emblem on the bottom of his foot, and it caused an unexpected problem during a scene in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Tom Holland's Spider-Man emblem tattoo created an unexpected continuity issue on Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
The inking, on the bottom of the 30-year-old actor's foot, appeared in the final shot of a scene where he is hanging upside down naked off the side of a building as the Marvel comics superhero, and the VFX team was forced to digitally remove the tattoo.
Tom told influencer Taya Miller at the film's global fan event at the STRAAT Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on June 17: "I have a tattoo, and a fun little story is that it's on the bottom of my foot, it's the Spider-Man emblem from the first movie. I have it all across the bottom of my foot.
"And there's a scene in the movie where I have no clothes on, and I'm hanging off the side of a building. It was very awkward to film.
"And in the VFX meetings, everyone was like, 'Yeah, the wires are gone, looks great.' But you could still see the tattoo on the bottom of my foot.
"They've gotten rid of it now, but there was a time when they were looking at the finished movie, and it was like, 'No, no, no, we need to paint that out.'"
Spider-Man: Brand New Day sees the world unaware of Peter Parker/Spider-Man's existence following the events of 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Tom stars in the movie alongside his 29-year-old wife, Zendaya (MJ), and their real-life relationship made filming parts easier.
Earlier this month, he told Empire magazine: "There's a very important scene in the film where we were shooting it and I kind of looked across to Zendaya and was like, 'Do you think this scene is working?' She kind of looked back at me and was like, 'I don't....'
"If I didn't have the relationship with Zendaya that I have, I would never dream of saying to an actress after her close-up, 'Do you think this is working?'"
Zendaya suggested that this example showed how much the pair have grown since they first played the parts in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming.
She said: "What's been really cool about this film, particularly, is, we were much younger, and we weren't as involved (before).
"The films were kind of already formed before we started our part of it. But now Tom is incredibly connected to these films in a different way. He's a part of everything, every decision, bringing these characters back to our screens. He is so in tune. You'd struggle to find someone who understands these movies better than he does."
