Spider-Man Star Tom Holland Looks Unrecognizable in New LEGO Short Film — He Takes a Break From Filming Brand New Day to Tell IGN Why

It's a rainy day successful the UK, and Tom Holland is taking a interruption from filming Spider-Man: Brand New Day. As we beryllium down to talk, the upwind is truthful atrocious that filming has concisely been halted — but Holland has ever had this day successful the diary to sermon a alternatively antithetic task entirely.

As of today, Holland stars successful a caller LEGO abbreviated movie that promotes the value of play, commissioned by the institution arsenic probe shows children consciousness progressively pressured to turn up fast. Never Stop Playing is simply a two-minute blast of live-action and LEGO animation designed by the LEGO Group but which besides feels precise Tom Holland, arsenic it tasks the histrion with embodying a varied and rapid-fire formed of characters — immoderate of whom necessitate much constitution than adjacent his iconic Umbrella performance.

Holland archetypal appears arsenic a abstraction marine, rapidly realising helium should ne'er simply travel orders and wantonness the amusive of play. It's a taxable which continues passim a whirlwind of different scenes, arsenic Holland appears arsenic a nonrecreational shot player, an inventor, a elder citizen, a toddler, a LEGO minifigure, a goateed creator and past a grumpy executive.

In turn, the powerfulness of LEGO convinces each Tom Holland-played quality to proceed being playful — a connection that Holland himself extolls erstwhile we sermon the film's connection after, arsenic helium explains wherefore he's taking a breather from playing Spider-Man to beforehand LEGO's connection instead.

"I deliberation it truly does help," Holland tells IGN, erstwhile asked what the value of play meant to him. "I person ADHD and I'm dyslexic, and I find sometimes erstwhile idiosyncratic gives maine a blank canvas that it tin beryllium somewhat intimidating. And sometimes you are met with those challenges erstwhile processing a character.

"So immoderate mode that you can, arsenic a young idiosyncratic oregon arsenic an adult, interact with thing that forces you to beryllium originative and forces you to deliberation extracurricular the container and marque changes that mightiness beryllium successful an acquisition manual oregon mightiness not beryllium successful an acquisition manual conscionable promotes steadfast creativity. And I deliberation that the much we bash that benignant of stuff, the better."

Holland says that, these days, his playtime besides incorporates sports similar play and paddle tennis, and helium plays online chess with his member Harry, which helps them enactment connected. But helium has besides had a agelong past of play with LEGO, helium continues, from his puerility close up until his existent Spider-Man era.

"We had truthful galore antithetic sets arsenic kids, we were precise lucky. I retrieve precise vividly, our parents utilized to person these competitions for america wherever we would person to tidy up our rooms, and whoever tidied up the country the champion would not person to lavation the dishes that nighttime oregon something. I had this LEGO acceptable of dinosaurs and I would ever signifier them arsenic portion of my tidying process to benignant of springiness my country that small spot of a originative borderline implicit my brothers. And I look backmost connected it truly fondly."

Tom's siblings Harry and Sam marque a cameo successful the caller LEGO film, arsenic reporters asking whether their member volition proceed playing arsenic a shot star. The quality to look alongside them was different crushed wherefore helium signed up for the gig, Holland says.

"They presented an accidental of thing that I could bash with my brothers," helium says of the LEGO Group's pitch, "which was truly amusive and not thing that happens each day. Prada weren't arsenic keen to person Harry and Sam arsenic Lego were," helium laughs, "but I'm a large instrumentality of the LEGO Group. We grew up playing [with LEGO together]."

"We liked the LEGO Indiana Jones video game," says Tom's member Harry, who has joined our speech alongside Sam, "and LEGO Star Wars due to the fact that it was 1 of the archetypal games we had that you could play astatine the aforesaid clip [in co-op]. A batch of our puerility was spent with monolithic arguments astir whose crook it was to play the Xbox. So erstwhile we got [those] it was like, 'oh wow, we tin play this astatine the aforesaid time.' And we're precise competitory arsenic brothers. So rivalries were calved connected the LEGO battlefield, shall we say."

Tom's member Sam, meanwhile, highlights the value of carnal LEGO sets, arsenic a distraction from the progressively integer world. "In a satellite wherever we're surrounded by screens, it gets radical disconnected screens, it gets radical talking to 1 another," helium says. "Growing up, I retrieve gathering each sorts of things."

"It besides teaches you astir tidying up," Tom past interjects. "Because if you don't tidy up Lego, it tin beryllium unsafe for your parents' bare feet."

Rewind 8 years, and Tom Holland's emotion of LEGO is wide to spot successful different IGN interrogation wherever the histrion masterfully re-enacts Spider-Man: Homecoming's slope heist country utilizing a LEGO set. While Holland admitted helium doesn't inactive play with minifigures of himself ("No, I can't accidental that I do"), the histrion says his fondest LEGO representation is of gathering a LEGO Star Wars Death Star with his Homecoming co-star Jacob Batalon, who plays Peter Parker's classmate Ned.

"I deliberation my favourite representation of LEGO would beryllium Spider-Man: Homecoming," Holland recalls. "Jacob and I were becoming accelerated friends and our lives were being flipped upside down. And there's that fantastic country wherever Ned drops the LEGO Death Star and we were tasked by the workplace to physique 1 ourselves."

Here, Holland is referring to the infinitesimal Ned finds retired Peter is Spider-Man, and drops the 3,803-brick LEGO Death Star acceptable successful shock, sending it smashing into pieces.

"I conscionable retrieve having truly fond memories of sitting down with Jacob successful my house, getting to cognize each different astatine the precise opening of this brainsick journey," Holland continues. "And it was rooted successful making this LEGO Death Star, and we finished it. Our friend's ma ended up helping america astatine 1 point, and I don't deliberation it is the 1 successful the movie due to the fact that they needed it to interruption successful a definite mode — truthful they built it without immoderate of its infrastructure truthful that it would shatter better. But I retrieve that being a very, precise poignant and fantastic clip successful that process."

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social