Sadie Sinkis always happy to enchant her audience.
Which includesTaylor SwiftandTravis Kelce, who recently her while she starred inRomeo & Julieton the West End.
“Theater is like such a special space for me, so important,” Sink told E! News’Will Marfuggiat theSpider-Man: Brand New DayLos Angeles premiere on July 27. “So, to have people that I know and love come and support it, it means the world.”
Not that theStranger Thingsalum—who previously worked with Swift on her 2021 music video for the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” oppositeDylan O’Brien—was peeking into the audience during her 13-week run withHamnet’sNoah Jupe.
“I never really realized it,” she explained. “I guess I like to not know who’s coming.”
But her wildest dreams came true when she received a standing ovation from Swift at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London: “It’s so nice.”
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It has been an unforgettable chapter for Sink, who took the stage ahead of her Marvel debut in the latestSpider-ManalongsideTom Holland,Zendaya,Mark RuffaloandJon Bernthal.
As for what it was like working with her star-studded MCU costars?
“I learned a lot in just observing,” she added. “It’s a very passionate fanbase to be joining but one I think thatStranger Thingsprepped me for. I feel very lucky to be here and to be joining it.”
Meanwhile, Holland proved he’s the cast’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man as he became a support for Sink—whose character remains under wraps—while filming. As she explained, “Tom had a lot of good advice. He’s such a bro.”
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With the movie being Sink’s first appearance in the MCU, costarJacob Batalon—who plays Peter Parker’s former pal Ned Leeds—couldn’t help but praise how swiftly everyone connected.
“I feel like she’s pretty good on her own,” he told E!at the premiere, “but I think we were just very welcoming to her and wanted to know she’s a part of the family.”
Spider-Man: Brand New Dayis out in theaters July 27.
While Sink’sSpider-Manremains a secret—for now—it’s not the only secret within the web of the Marvel world.For more,keep reading.
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Yet as the Marty Supreme star recalled in 2018 while accepting an acting award for Call Me By Your Name, “I read twice and I left sweating in a total panic.”
Of course he then called his agent and said he just had to go back and read again, but his agent advised him that might be overkill.
“He just was so young and sweet, and just charming, and then in the audition, he did a full backflip, like a standing backflip, in addition to being really great on tape,” Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts told Men’s Health in 2024. “It was like watching a video of the real Peter Parker.”
Added Joe Russo, who along with brother Anthony Russo directed a number of MCU films, including 2016’s Captain America: Civil War (Spider-Man’s franchise debut), “He was all the things that reminded me of what I loved about Peter Parker as a kid. And he was a movie star. He had that movie-star quality. The charisma, the confidence, the energy.”
But after acing screen tests opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, Holland was announced as the new Spider-Man in June 2015.
The Odyssey co-stars were making the 2017 film Pilgrimage and “that was where both Tom did his audition for Spider-Man and I did my audition for [Netflix’s] Punisher,” Bernthal said on Jimmy Kimmel Live in April 2025. “We actually made each other’s audition tapes on that film.”
Holland was super-confident, Bernthal noted, so he admittedly tried to temper the teen’s expectations.
“I was like, ‘There’s probably a lot of people that want to be Spider-Man. I mean, you’re super talented and all, but the odds are kind of against you, but yeah, let’s make the tape,’” Bernthal recalled. But, not wanting Holland to get lost in the shuffle, either, “I gave him the note, ‘Tom, maybe you should run up that wall and do a double backflip and then start the scene.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you think I should do that? That’s not too much?’”
Bernthal quipped, “It’s not that I take responsibility for him [getting cast], but you know, like a little something.”
“Not only did the idea of Civil War scare parts of Marvel, because we were turning Tony Stark, their most popular character in the MCU, into an antagonist in the film,” Anthony Russo told CBR in May 2026. “The [idea of] introducing Spider-Man within this movie was very controversial because…the character could really only appear in the MCU in cooperation with Sony.”
And even though they had a Spider-Man, Anthony continued, “there were a couple of weeks where we didn’t even come in to work on the movie because that issue hadn’t been resolved yet.”
Added Joe, ” I remember correctly, Sony and Disney didn’t sign the deal officially until like a day before [Holland] was on camera, or something crazy like that. There was a reason that we couldn’t talk about it, because it still could have blown up at the last second.”
“She was wearing no makeup and she was just dressed like a regular girl, and we were like, ‘Oh my God, she’s amazing. She has to be in the movie,’” Pascal told Vogue in 2024. “And then we found out she was a totally famous person, and felt really stupid.”
Her character was “kind of like a loner,” she explained. “She’s super intellectual, very dry humor, one liners, pops in, pops out—and I didn’t even know what kind of character I was gonna play until I got there [to the audition] and got to sign the non-disclosure and then read the script.”
“A Monday morning would be this hour-long workout: one pullup, two dips, three pushups, four sit-ups, five squats—that’s round one—and you basically go all the way up to 10, so the last round is 10, 20, 30, 40, 50,” the actor told Men’s Health. “And then you’ll go all the way back down to 1. That is a monster workout.”
Maguire and Garfield quietly signed on toward the end of 2020 before their scenes were even scripted, so their participation “definitely shaped” the end result, according to Erik Sommers, who wrote the screenplay with Chris McKenna.
“They had thoughts, and it was really interesting and helpful to see their thoughts,” Sommers told The Hollywood Reporter when the film came out. Added McKenna, “They had great ideas that really elevated everything we were going for and added layers and an arc, and we really actually started honing into the idea that these two guys were really helping Tom’s Peter on his journey to becoming who he ends up becoming.”
And while there was speculation aplenty, being able to keep Maguire and Garfield’s casting a secret was its own reward.
“One of my favorite things to do at the minute is to go online and watch fans’ reactions to you guys coming in that one scene in particular,” Holland told his fellow Spider-Men in a Zoom chat with Pete Hammond after No Way Home stuck the landing and then some. “I don’t think I could ever have imagined it as being so well received by everyone. I mean, I guess I had an idea that people would love this movie, but in no way, shape or form could I have thought it was going to be as big as it has been.”
Before then, the writers never felt there was “a natural place” for it. But ultimately the line—in this case,”With great power, there must also come great responsibility”—went to Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), who meets her demise in the third film.
“For the scene on the rooftop, where the three Peters meet, we felt pretty strongly that we need something to really, finally crystalize it for these three guys that they are the same, that they are brothers,” Sommers told THR. “And that they are bound in a cosmic way by something and having them share those words in common seemed like the thing to do.”
“It was all just like, ‘We don’t want to go over ground that’s been covered,'” Captain America: Civil War co-writer Christopher Markus told Collider in 2016. “It’s more poignant when you don’t talk about it at this point because everyone knows it.'”
Aunt May’s a widow, but Ben “died in an accident,” Joe Russo told CBR in May 2026, “and not because of Peter’s failure to act.”
And if Holland’s Spider-Man “blamed himself for his Uncle Ben’s death,” he explained, “I think he becomes a very different character.”
“I think it could be a satisfying conclusion,” Sommers told THR, “or just another really fun, inciting incident for another story. I hope they do more. But I don’t know.”
Added McKenna, “I think it’s a fitting ending if it had to end this way. We never know. ‘Oh, is Tom doing another one? Will we be a part of it?'”
The answer to both questions was yes, as No Way Home made $1.9 billion worldwide and the whole gang’s back together for Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
