Tom Holland is taking a break from acting

Filming the series The Crowded Room was so difficult for Tom Holland that the young actor decided to take a year off.

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Marvel Cinematic Universe Spider-Man star Tom Holland will take a year-long break from acting, all after wrapping filming on The Crowded Room, the upcoming Apple TV+ series. The actor recently revealed how difficult it was for him to play the role of Danny Sullivan.

“It was a tough time, definitely,” Holland said during an interview with Extra. “We were exploring some emotions that I've definitely never felt before. And then, on top of that, being a producer, dealing with the day-to-day problems that come with any film set, just added that extra layer of pressure. Now I'm taking a year off, and that's because of how difficult this show has been."

The Spider-Man: No Way Home star added that he's no stranger to hard work and that he thoroughly enjoyed working on this series, but acknowledges that the show has somewhat "broken" him.

“There came a time when I felt I needed a break.”

The Crowded Room is a 10-episode series about a man who is arrested following his involvement in a shooting in New York City in 1979. In the psychological thriller, Tom Holland plays Danny Sullivan, a character based on Billy Mulligan, a man known as “ The Campus Rapist” and the subject of a highly publicized court case in the late 1970s.

This isn't the first time Holland has opened up about how difficult it was for him to play the character, opening up about his mental health. "I'm no stranger to the physical aspects of the job, because of the whole action movie thing," he told EW in an interview. “But the mental aspect, it really brought me down and it took me a long time to recover, to somehow come back to reality.”

Holland spoke of the struggles he had to go through in breaking away from the character, adding that he had a little breakdown that made him think “I'm going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character. And, of course, we were halfway through filming, so I decided against it… It was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before.”

Source: Deadline