J.K. Simmons says he’s never met Tom Holland despite being in 2 of his “Spider-Man” movies

Key Points

• J.K. Simmons says he’s never met Tom Holland.

• The actors both starred in the two recent Spider-Man films.

• Simmons also shared how he was cast in Spider-Man: Far From Home at the last minute.

Breaking news from the Daily Bugle: Spider-Man costars Tom Holland and J.K. Simmons have never met.

After first playing J. Jonah Jameson in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man trilogy, Simmons reprised his role as the Spidey-hating newsman in 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, and then in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. And still, the Oscar winner reveals that he hasn’t crossed paths with the current Peter Parker.

“I have not met Tom Holland,” Simmons confessed on Happy Sad Confused. “Delightful guy, I’m told.”

That being said, can he prove that it wasn’t Holland in the Spider-Man suit at the New York Mets game that Simmons recently attended?

Being cast as Jameson in 2002’s Spider-Man was a game-changing moment in Simmons’ career, but he was no shoo-in for the role, even though he’d already worked with Spider-Man director Sam Raimi twice. He was asked to do an “old-school, classic camera test” as Jameson to win over skeptical executives.

“It was nerve-wracking,” he said in 2020. “The producers and the people at Sony, they needed to be convinced, because, obviously, there were a lot of much more high-profile actors that they had in mind that would help with the box office.”

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For three films, Simmons’ Jameson expressed his distaste for Spider-Man (Maguire), running a smear campaign in the Daily Bugle, unaware that his employee, Peter Parker, is the superhero. A decade-plus later, the actor officially joined the MCU when the Far From Home mid-credits scene featured a special report from Jameson, in which he shared the secret identity of Holland’s Peter. According to Simmons, that was never part of any master plan.

“That was a complete shock, and a very last-minute decision, which I still think is why JJJ doesn’t have hair in the Tom Holland Spider-Man Universe,” he shared. “They called my agent, we had a meeting the next day, and then it was like a day or two later that I was shooting in some executive’s office on the lot, because there was no set. They were well into editing the film when they went, ‘What if we stuck in a little JJJ in here?'”

Simmons played Jameson again in the last installment, No Way Home, but he’s currently insisting that he’s not in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

Huh, a Spider-Man star possibly lying about being in the next film, that couldn’t have happened before, right?

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