Tom Holland Backs Owen Cooper as a Future Spider-Man

Tom Holland has suggested 16-year-old Owen Cooper as a future Spider-Man, calling him 'super-talented and the talk of the town right now' and saying it would be 'awesome' if Cooper stepped into the role. Cooper is best known for playing Jamie Miller in Adolescence, a hit for Netflix in 2025.

He has since landed a recurring role on the comedy series Film Club and played Young Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. He had already addressed the idea during a June 2025 interview with Jimmy Fallon, when he was 15, saying, "In, like, 10 years' time, maybe." Cooper added that he wasn't expecting it, explaining, "I'm not expecting it...

I just wanted to be it." Cooper has said Holland's debut film The Impossible (2012) inspired him: "It won't make me cry now, but when I was a kid, it made me cry every single time...

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