Is it true that Tom Holland supported the idea of ​​making his spider-man gay?

A couple of years ago, the news was scattered over the network that the performer of the role of Spider-Man Tom Holland supported the idea of ​​making his character to a homosexual. We checked whether the British actor really advocated such a change.

The headlines in the style of “Tom Holland believes that Spider-Man can identify himself gay” appeared in July 2019. Then the media wrote that the Marvel star star is ready to demonstrate the importance of diversity and tolerance by its own example. Allegedly Holland was not opposed to the change of sexual orientation of his Peter Parker, despite the fact that this hero had previously liked the girls.

At the same time, the articles indicated that Holland himself does not know what future his character awaits, because it is in the hands of producers and screenwriters. Similar stories are found at "Lente.ru", "Gazeta.ru" and the site "Rossiya newspaper". Of course, in social networks news CALL Stormy discussion and I gave rise to memes.

All three of the above -mentioned publications referred to the portal The Huffington PostAlthough the source is the British newspaper The Sunday Times, which has released an original article with an interview on June 30, 2019. Access to it is made by subscription, but on the site you can free read A shortened version under the heading "Spider-Man can get a boyfriend." Below translation:

“Tom Hollande urged that his character, Spider-Man, be presented in the future film.

If the Disney studio, which owns the Marvel franchise, will agree, then Spider-Man will be the first superhero in the history of the movie, which is an open representative of the LGBT community.

“The world is not so simple, not only white guys-nursing guys live in it. Everything does not end there, and these films should reflect more than one type of people,” said Holland in an interview for The Sunday Times’s Culture Magazine.

To the question of whether they can be a spider-who is a gay man, Holland replied: "Yes, of course. I can’t talk about the character of the character ... But I know a lot about the future of Marvel, and in a few years many different people will be presented there."

It turns out that Holland was really not against changing the orientation of his spider, but the media were not mistaken? Not really. This short news report was written by journalist Grant Tucker, and the author of the original was another person - Jonathan Dean. Firstly, Tucker added a phrase on the “appeal” of Holland, although there were no calls in the original source. Secondly, in a full interview, it was most likely not about Holland's character, but about another hero. We have access to The main interview, and below the translation of the desired passage:

“LGBT minorities are still not sufficiently represented. I asked Holland, who has at least one film with him as a superhero, is there a chance to ever see a spider-who is a gay with him. “Yes, of course,” he answered quickly, frowning and shrugging his shoulders, suggesting that this could not fail. How soon? "I can’t talk about the character of the character, because I honestly do not know, and this is not in my hands. But I know a lot about the future of Marvel, and in a few years many different people will be presented there."

"The world is not so simple, not only white guys-nursing guys live in it. Everything does not end there, and these films should reflect more than one type of people. In Texas, I met one woman, and there was a little boy at her school, who loved to wear women's clothes. And then I dressed like Rianna [for amazing performances on the LIP Sync Batle] and this woman] and this woman I told me that the boy began to feel more confident, because I saw how Spider-Man did the same thing.

Even according to the source, it is not clear how exactly the interviewer formulated a question about Gaia when he asked Holland. There is no direct quote in the text, however, in his retelling, the author used an indefinite article a (a gay spider-man), and not the The, which would indicate precisely the spider performed by Holland. That is, we could talk about the hypothetical new man-spider, whom the new actor would play.

After a couple of months, in September 2019, Holland himself set up all the points over "i". Then a video was released on the GQ YouTube channel, in which the actor “undercover” answered the questions of users of sites Reddit, YouTube and Twitter. One of the questions was this: "Did Tom Holland say that he wants Spider-Man to be gay?"

According to Holland, the original question addressed to him sounded like this: "Do you think there should be a homosexual spider-person?" He added that he considers the creation of such a new character very progressive. “I think that one day he should appear. And I hope to be on the same screen with this person, ”the actor summed up.

So, in fact, Holland advocated the emergence of a new version of the spider superhero, and not for changing the sexual orientation of the character he already played.

Image: : _eat_pizza_ / Reddit

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