Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon on Spider-Man: No Way Home and Fight Scene With Green Goblin

With director Jon Watts' Spider-Man: No Way Home getting ready to break pandemic box office records when it opens in theaters December 17th, I recently got to speak with Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon about making the highly anticipated sequel. During the fun interview, they talked about why the dialogue scenes are the heart and soul of the movie, what they wish more people knew about making a Spider-Man film, Zendaya's idea for a Teachers of Midtown High School movie, when they found out the sequel would involve the multiverse, how at one point Watts had pitched Holland on a Kraven movie for the sequel, if they’ve pitched the studio on doing a What If…? episode where MJ or Ned gets bit by the spider, and more. In addition, Holland talks about filming the fight scene between him and Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin and how they both gave everything to the scene including Holland's blood.

As most of you know, Spider-Man: No Way Home begins after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home where J. Jonah Jameson (J. K. Simmons) has revealed Spider-Man’s identity to the whole world after being convinced by Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) that the Web Crawler is a villain. As you’ve seen in the trailer, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) goes to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to see if he can erase Spider-Man’s real identity from everyone’s memory. Unfortunately, the spell doesn’t work and instead brings visitors from other realities into the MCU.

No Way Home also sees the return of Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, Benedict Wong as Wong, Tony Revolori as Flash Thompson, Angourie Rice as Betty Brant, Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus, Jamie Foxx’s Electro, Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, Thomas Haden Church's Sandman, and Rhys Ifans' Lizard. Jon Watts returns to direct this third installment, based on a script written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, who both penned the previous two films.

Check out what Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about followed by the full transcript.

Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon
Have they seen What If…? and have they pitched the studio on doing an episode where MJ or Ned gets bit by the spider?
How Zendaya has been pitching an idea called The Teachers of Midtown High School.
Who was the person they least expected to ask them for spoilers on Spider-Man: No Way Home?
Did they know making the first movie they were building towards the multiverse?
How Jon Watts pitched Holland on a Kraven movie for the 3rd Spider-Man movie but that obviously didn’t happen.
How the dialogue scenes are the heart and soul of the movie and the challenges of getting them right.
How a lot of Jacob Batalon’s dialogue in No Way Home is him improvising.
What do they wish more people knew about what it takes to make a Spider-Man movie?
How the fight scene between Holland and Green Goblin got bloody.

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