Zendaya, Tom Holland, and Jacob Batalon Absolutely Lose It Over Their Spider-Man Audition Tapes
If you were actually hoping to HEAR the auditions of Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon in the video where they watch their audition tapes together, you will be sorely disappointed - but only because the cast's reactions are so gosh darned adorable.
Sony just released the video to YouTube, in which the three stars of Spider-Man: No Way Home took a trip down memory lane together by watching their original audition videos, which by now are at least four years old - at least five, in Holland's case.
The first video they watch is Holland's, and the gang loses their ability to keep it together from the first moment he flips on-screen. The former Billy Elliot star's audition was mostly physical: He seemed to be focused on exemplifying the ways he could embody the young Peter Parker, from the backflips to the well-coordinated imaginary web-grab, where he looked like he grabbed a shoe with an imaginary web-slinger.
Jacob Batalon was next, and they kept it together a little better during his video, but barely - Zendaya was too busy freaking out over how much of a baby he was. (To be fair, she's kind of right - he's so very sweet the entire time.) They also couldn't help but giggle at the clear distinction he made between the character himself, going so far as to walk out of frame before re-entering to do his scene.
Finally, there was Zendaya, and although you still can't really hear her audition, the reaction is much more subdued: The boys seem simultaneously impressed and unsurprised at how cool she was the entire time, just sitting casually in a chair nonchalantly answering the questions thrown her way. It was an audition for MJ, after all - a character who ended up being very, very, very subdued.
Spider-man: No Way Home may have been this group's last foray together as a trio - the end of the movie left the two friends with no memory of Peter Parker, and it seemed like he was going to choose to keep it that way.
Not only that, but it looks like Sony may be gearing up to separate Spidey from the MCU and get him back into their own Universe, as they set up the upcoming Madame Web film - read more about that here.
