Tom Holland Remembers ‘A Lot of Hate’ on the Set of Crowded Rooms

Tom Holland he appreciated his humility while facing stressful situations on the set of A Crowded Room.

“There was a lot of hate on that set,” Holland, 28, said during the meeting Men’s Health profile, which was published on Thursday, January 2. “It was not a very harmonious place, and there were many arguments and loud noises.”

Holland’s decision to cut out alcohol allowed him to navigate the sport. “I thought, ‘If I start drinking again now – with all this going on – it’s going to be worse, isn’t it?’

A Crowded Roomwhich premiered in May 2022, was inspired by the 1981 non-fiction book The Minds of Billy Milligan about the first person in US history to be acquitted on a charge of dissociative identity disorder. In addition to Holland, the star of the showd Amanda Seyfried, Sasha Lane, Will Chase, Lior Raz again Emmy Rossum.

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Although this is the first claims about A Crowded Room set was enlarged, Holland has previously discussed the emotional impact of playing the lead role.

“Learning about mental health and its power, and talking to psychiatrists about it [the characters] Danny and Billy’s struggle has been the most educational thing in my life,” he said Entertainment Weekly May 2023. “I don’t know the physical characteristics of the work that does the whole action-movie thing. But the attitude, it hit me hard, and it took me a long time to recover after that, to come back to reality.”

Holland recalled struggling with this issue, adding, “I saw myself in him, but in my life.” I remember having a little meltdown at home and thinking, like, ‘I’m going to shave my head. I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.’ And, obviously, we were in the middle of shooting, so I decided not to. … It was unlike anything I had ever experienced before.”

The actor also opened up about his sobriety journey after realizing he had become dependent on alcohol.

“Every Friday when I left work it was turned off. Let’s get drunk and have fun. “I didn’t face any bad situations, but I drank enough to ruin my next day,” he said Men’s Health on Thursday. “I am very determined. If I decide to do something, I will really do it. I was very dependent on those closest to me: family, friends, old colleagues, new colleagues, people who reached out to me who were also sober.”

Holland credited her lawyer for helping her, saying, “He gave me some really painful advice that helped me through everything, which was, ‘You don’t wake up the next morning after a night out and wish you’d drunk.’ ‘ That advice came true for me, because my problem was that I would drink once in my life, and then I would pass.”