Tom Holland returns to London's West End in 'Romeo and Juliet'
Tom Holland.
Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImageTom Holland marks his return to the West End with a starring role in a new version of Romeo & Juliet.
Netherlands, 27, announced the news on Tuesday, February 5, alongside a poster for the upcoming play. The actor will star as Romeo in the production, which will be directed by Jamie Lloyd. According to the show's website, Lloyd's version is a “pulsating new vision” of Shakespeare's “immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters.”
Romeo & Juliet will run for twelve weeks at the Duke of York's Theatre. Tickets go on sale February 13 and the play runs from May to August. There are no details yet about the Dutch costars in the piece.
Holland has a history in London's West End, where he started his career with a role in Billy Elliot the Musical at the Victoria Palace Theatre. After two years of training, he scored a supporting role and was upgraded to a title role, which he played until 2010.
In 2012, Holland made his film debut in The impossible, and his career only rose from there. He became a global star after landing the role of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Holland has starred in six films in the superhero franchise so far.
“I think I've had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby,” Holland recalled during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. “I had Spider-Man sheets. Two years ago I went to a costume party dressed as Spider-Man and looked like an absolute idiot.”
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Since the role of peter parker was brought to life, holland has explored a wide range of roles in films including Not mapped And Cherry. He has said that his most challenging project was Apple TV+ The busy room because of the way it affected his mental health.
“Learning about mental health and the power of it, and talking about it with psychiatrists [the characters] Danny and Billy's struggle is something that has been so informative to my own life,” he shared Entertainment weeky in May 2023 about playing an antisocial man arrested for a shooting.
Holland recalled struggling with the subject matter, adding, “I'm no stranger to the physical aspects of the job when I do the whole action movie thing.” But the mental aspect really messed me up, and it took me a long time to recover after that, to kind of get back to reality.
He continued: “I saw myself in him, but in my personal life. I remember having a bit of a breakdown at home and thinking, 'I'm going to shave my head. I have to shave my head because I want to get rid of this character.' And obviously we were in the middle of shooting, so I decided not to do that. … It was unlike anything I had ever experienced before.”