Tom Holland is reflecting on his now iconic performance on Lip Sync Battle!
The 29-year-old actor got in drag for the show as he performed a mashup of “Singin’ In the Rain” and Rihanna‘s “Umbrella,” as part of his battle against now fiancée Zendaya.
While appearing on Gordon Ramsay‘s Scrambled cooking series recently, Tom looked back on the performance and how his dad thought it wasn’t the best idea to do the show.
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“What was really great about that is people didn’t know that I could dance. I kept that quiet, I don’t know why,” Tom told Gordon. “It’s so funny, Zendaya and I, we were chatting at the time about what we were gonna do, and we had agreed that we would take it easy. That was the agreement, that it was like, ‘I’m not gonna do anything crazy, you’re not gonna do anything crazy, we’re just gonna keep it nice and easy breezy.’”
“When I was working with the creative team coming up with the ideas, they kind of pitched this ‘Umbrella’ thing, and as we were rehearsing, it got crazier and crazier,” he shared. “And then the rain machine came in. And then I was like, ‘F–k it, I wanna wear fishnets and do this, and I want a wig and a quick-change.’”
Tom then went on to explain that when he told his dad, he said he didn’t think it was a good idea. Why not?
“I was like, ‘No, dad. It will be really fun. Like, I’m going to have a good time,” Tom explained. “I think he was just, at that time in my career, he was very worried about me becoming too famous too quickly. So he was really keen for me to not do extra TV shows that I didn’t have to do to try and maintain that part of my childhood.”
“Honestly, of all the pieces of work I’ve done that I’ve put my heart and soul into, blood, sweat and tears, the Lip Sync Battle is the thing that everyone brings up,” he said. “It’s never Spider-Man. It’s never, you know, any of my other movies. It’s always Lip Sync Battle. It haunts me.”
If you didn’t know, Tom‘s “Umbrella” performance was almost a different song!
Speaking of Spider-Man, Tom is currently in production on his upcoming fourth movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, with the first part of filming taking place on the streets of Glasgow.
See pics of his new suit and from his first day on set!
