Tom Holland called Christopher Nolan’s script ‘the best I’ve ever read’ and described the filming experience as ‘the job of a lifetime.’ He revealed that many unique aspects of the project will make it completely unlike anything seen before, and acting alongside Damon and Hathaway left him in awe 👇 Read the full story below.

In a surprise appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast last night, Tom Holland dropped the kind of quotes that instantly break the internet. When asked about Christopher Nolan’s still-untitled 2026 film, the 29-year-old Brit didn’t hold back: “It’s the best script I’ve ever read, full stop. I cried, I laughed, I had to put it down three times just to breathe.”

Holland confirmed he wrapped his role three weeks ago after an intense 94-day shoot that took the production from Iceland’s black-sand beaches to a decommissioned Cold War radar station in Scotland. He called the entire experience “the job of a lifetime, no exaggeration.”

The actor revealed Nolan wrote the screenplay in complete secrecy, handing out pages only hours before filming. Phones were banned, scripts were printed on red paper impossible to photocopy, and every cast member signed NDAs reportedly longer than the script itself.

What truly floored Holland, however, was the central concept. Without spoiling specifics, he teased that the film “weaponises time in a way no Nolan movie has before, not even Tenet.” He added, “You’ll walk out questioning if the version of reality you just watched was the real one, or the one we’re living in right now.”

Working opposite Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway left the Spider-Man star starstruck daily. “I grew up worshipping these two,” he admitted. “There was a scene with just the three of us in a tiny room for twelve hours, no cuts. By take thirty I was shaking. Anne kept whispering ‘breathe, kid’ between takes.”

Holland let slip that Hathaway’s character carries a 17-minute monologue delivered entirely in one unbroken shot. “She nailed it on the fourth take,” he said, still sounding stunned. “Chris just yelled ‘Print!’ and walked away. Even the crew was crying.”

Damon, apparently, improvised an emotional moment so raw that Nolan kept the camera rolling for nine extra minutes. Holland refused to describe it, only saying, “When you see it, the whole theater will stop breathing at once.”

The production reportedly used zero green-screen. Every location is real, every explosion practical, and one sequence required rebuilding a 1940s street in the middle of the Irish countryside at a cost rumored to exceed $40 million for four minutes of screen time.

Holland also confirmed the film was shot on IMAX 70mm film, with certain reels exposed in complete darkness using a technique Nolan and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema developed specifically for this project. “Some images literally can’t exist digitally,” he hinted.

Perhaps most shockingly, Holland revealed his own character ages backward throughout the story. “I’m 29 at the start, 19 by the end. No prosthetics, no CGI de-aging, just hair, lighting, and me trying to remember how awkward I was at nineteen. Chris made me watch old home videos of myself for weeks.”

He laughed recalling one night shoot in Iceland where temperatures dropped to minus thirty. Nolan refused to let anyone wear thermal layers under his costume because “the shiver has to be honest.” Hathaway reportedly brought him hot water bottles between takes and told him, “Welcome to real cinema, darling.”

Holland says the director screened a rough assembly for the cast two weeks ago. “Four hours long, no VFX finished, no score yet, and still the best thing I’ve ever seen. When the lights came up, Matt just looked at me and said, ‘We’re never topping this.’”

While plot details remain locked tighter than Fort Knox, Holland dropped one final bombshell: the ending was shot in two completely different versions. “Even we don’t know which one Chris is using. He’s keeping both cuts until the last possible second.”

He wrapped the interview with a promise: “This isn’t just another blockbuster. It’s the reason I became an actor. When it comes out next summer, forget everything you think you know about movies. Chris just rewrote the rulebook again.”

As the podcast ended, host Josh Horowitz asked if Holland would work with Nolan again in a heartbeat. Holland didn’t hesitate: “I’d play a stormtrooper with one line if he asked. Actually, scratch that, I’d play the silence between lines. Whatever he wants, I’m there tomorrow.”

With Damon, Hathaway, and now Holland singing its praises months before a single frame of footage has been released, Christopher Nolan’s next film is already living up to the impossible hype. And if even half of what Holland says is true, we’re not ready.

Mark your calendars for July 17, 2026. The countdown starts now.