Tom Holland Says Nolan's The Odyssey Gave Him Confidence and New Ambitions
Tom Holland says working with Christopher Nolan gave him a level of confidence as an actor that he did not have before. Speaking at a London screening of The Odyssey on Thursday, 12 November, he said the experience also left him eager to see what else is out there for him, according to Variety.
Holland plays Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, in Nolan's film. Robert Pattinson plays Antinous and joined Holland at the screening. Pattinson is currently in London filming The Batman: Part II.
The screening was held at the BFI Imax in London, a cinema with a screen 65 feet high. The film was shot over three months in six countries, on land and at sea.
Nolan made the film using Imax 70mm film cameras, a very large film format used for some of cinema's biggest screens. It is the first feature shot entirely on that format. Nolan shot more than 2 million feet of film.
Holland first entered show business in the West End stage production of Billy Elliot. He has played Spider-Man for more than a decade and stars in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Variety reports that he is understood to be in pre-production on a biopic of Fred Astaire.
What comes next for Holland is still taking shape. For now, the London night was a chance to look back at a long shoot that covered a lot of ground, from open land to open sea, and to talk about what the work has taught him.
