“Spider-Man: Brand New Day”: Tom Holland Deliberately Dehydrated for Bathhouse Nude Scene — Became "Super Irritable" While Filming with Florence Pugh's Yelena

※ This article contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." Reader discretion is advised. ※
※ This article contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." Reader discretion is advised. ※
※ This article contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day." Reader discretion is advised.

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In "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," Tom Holland's Peter Parker reportedly meets Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, the second Black Widow, in a Russian bathhouse. During the scene, to ensure Spider-Man wasn't concealing any weapons, Yelena demands he strip and enter the water, leaving Peter onscreen wearing only his Spider-Man mask and a pair of underwear.

Speaking with "Entertainment Weekly," Tom Holland revealed he even attempted dehydration for the scene:

“Besides the fact that I really loved working with Florence and the whole scene went very smoothly, and she's the funniest person in the room, I tried that stupid dehydration preparation for that scene.”

He continued, “I didn't drink any water the day before filming, and the day before that, I drank a lot of water. I just wanted to see if it would make any difference, but the only result was that it made me incredibly irritable. Honestly, I don't even think it made much of a difference.”

The underwear-only look also drew comparisons to a special suit in Insomniac Games' "Marvel's Spider-Man."

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige stated that many action sequences in the film were indeed inspired by the game, but he could not confirm whether the bathhouse scene was a deliberate homage.


via: EW