Tom Holland He was grateful for his composure while dealing with stressful situations on set Crowded room.
“There was a lot of animosity in that group,” Holland, 28, revealed during a podcast Men's health Profile published on Thursday, January 2. “The place was not very harmonious, and there was a lot of arguing and fighting.”
Netherlands' decision to stop drinking alcohol He was allowed to move around Drama. “I thought: If I start drinking again now — with all this going on — it's going to get worse, right?”
Crowded room, Which was first shown in May 2022, based on the 1981 non-fiction book The Minds of Billy Milligan About the first person in US history to be acquitted of a capital crime by pleading to dissociative identity disorder. In addition to the Netherlands, the championship of the showDr. Amanda Seyfried, Sasha Lin, Will Chase, Lior Raz and Emmy Rossum.
While this is First time claiming about Crowded room The set has been rolled out, and Holland has previously discussed the emotional impact of playing the lead role.
“Learning about mental health and the power of it, and talking to psychiatrists about (characters) Danny and Billy’s struggles, has been very beneficial to my life,” he said. Entertainment Weekly in May 2023. “I'm no stranger to the physical aspects of the job I do in the whole action movie thing. But the mental aspect, it really shook me up, and it took a long time for me to recover after that, to kind of come back to reality.
Holland recalled her struggle with this topic, adding: “I saw myself in it, but in my personal life. I remember feeling a bit down at home and thinking, “I'm going to shave my head.” I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character. Obviously we were in the middle of filming, so I decided not to do it. …It was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before.
The actor has also been candid His sobriety journey After he realized his addiction to alcohol.
“Every Friday after work was a write-off. Let's get drunk and have a good time. I didn't have bad experiences, but I would drink enough to ruin my next day,” he said. Men's health Thursday. “I'm fairly strong-willed. When I decide to do something, I'll really do it. I leaned on those close to me a lot: family, friends, old colleagues, new colleagues, people who reached out to me who I didn't know who were also sober.”
Holland He relied on his lawyer To help him, he said, “He gave me a really poignant piece of advice that helped me get through everything, which was, ‘You'll never wake up in the morning after a night out and wish you'd had a drink.'” This advice rang true to me, because my problem was that I would have one drink and be Fine, and then I'll go away.