Tom Holland remembers being unable to stop laughing at a droid stand-in during Star Wars audition
The actor discusses his career while crying from spice on Hot Ones

Back when he was just a spider-boy and not the full-fledged Spider-Man he is today, Tom Holland was out there auditioning for other Disney-owned mega-franchises, like Star Wars. And, though he’s obviously quite capable of keeping a straight face while talking about magic stones with Benedict Cumberbatch in a cape, pretending to interact with sentient robots was apparently too hard for Holland to take seriously.
Holland previously mentioned this story while discussing a Star Wars audition process so intense that, as we wrote, Michael B. Jordan described it as being like “The X Factor but without the TV show around it.”
During an appearance on Hot Ones, he elaborated on the challenges he faced when auditioning for the role of Finn years back. Though Holland says he likely lost out to John Boyega for other reasons, he does recall being completely unable to act opposite a woman pretending to be a droid when he was still in the running for the part.