Tom Holland describes a painful stunt for Uncharted, the place he ‘shredded his palms to bits’: ‘It was exhausting’

“I’ve been playing two very famous characters who are famous for climbing things,” the 25-year-old British actor instructed Reuters. “It was important to us to create this unique style for Nathan Drake so there were no similarities to Spider-Man at all but… when you’re making these big films, it’s exciting to see how far you can push the limits, to what you can do physically, to design these sequences to be unique and be fresh and new.”

Holland does his fair proportion of daring stunts however the movie’s promotion focuses on a sequence the place Drake falls out the again of a aircraft and struggles to get again onboard. Holland described the stunt as “the hardest thing I’ve ever done from a physical point of view,” spending almost on daily basis for 5 weeks in a studio being wired up 100 toes (31m) from the bottom.

“We shredded our hands to bits and it was exhausting but rightly so,” he stated. “It’s a very spectacular sequence and I believe that sort of stage of physicality actually comes by way of on display screen nevertheless it was knackering. It was completely brutal.”

Mark Wahlberg was initially purported to play Drake within the adaptation however was moved to the older mentor character of Sully when manufacturing lastly obtained underway. “At first, I was like, wait a second, I’ve got one more fight left in me, but then I was like, this is absolutely perfect,” stated the 50-year-old American actor.

“We really enjoyed harping on about Sully being a little bit older, always having some sort of excuse not to engage with the physicality… I’m certainly embracing getting older.” As Spider-Man and Drake, Holland is quick turning into the largest motion hero for his technology. “A rom-com would be nice if I’m honest but… I like pushing myself and seeing what I can do,” stated Holland.

“That said, I am actively looking for a film where I can lie down and do nothing for a while.”