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J.K. Simmons says he’s never met Tom Holland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The actors both starred in the two recent Spider-Man<\/em> films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Simmons also shared how he was cast in Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em> at the last minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Breaking news from the Daily Bugle<\/em>: Spider-Man<\/em><\/a> costars Tom Holland<\/a> and J.K. Simmons<\/a> have never met.<\/p>\n After first playing J. Jonah Jameson in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man<\/em> trilogy, Simmons reprised his role as the Spidey-hating newsman in 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Hom<\/em>e, and then in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em>. And still, the Oscar winner reveals that he hasn’t crossed paths with the current Peter Parker.<\/p>\n “I have not met Tom Holland,” Simmons confessed on Happy Sad Confused<\/em><\/a>. “Delightful guy, I’m told.”<\/p>\n 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<\/a>?<\/p>\n Being cast as Jameson in 2002’s Spider-Man<\/em> 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<\/em> director Sam Raimi twice. He was asked to do an “old-school, classic camera test” as Jameson to win over skeptical executives.<\/p>\n “It was nerve-wracking,” he said in 2020<\/a>. “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.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <\/em><\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n For three films, Simmons’ Jameson expressed his distaste for Spider-Man (Maguire), running a smear campaign in the Daily Bugle<\/em>, unaware that his employee, Peter Parker, is the superhero. A decade-plus later, the actor officially joined the MCU when the Far From Home<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n “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<\/a>. “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?'”<\/p>\n Simmons played Jameson again in the last installment, No Way Home<\/em>, but he’s currently insisting<\/a> that he’s not in the upcoming Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Huh, a Spider-Man<\/em><\/a> star possibly lying<\/a> about being in the next film, that couldn’t have happened before, right?<\/p>\n