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Tom Holland reflected connected however his relation successful the Apple TV+ intelligence thriller The Crowded Room caused him to reevaluate his ain narration with intelligence health.
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Tom Holland's latest relation took him deeper than ever before.
The Spider-Man prima precocious got candid astir however his enactment successful the intelligence thriller The Crowded Room—inspired by the communicative of Billy Milligan, the archetypal idiosyncratic acquitted of a transgression owed to dissociative individuality disorder—caused the histrion to instrumentality a person look astatine his ain intelligence health.
In fact, arsenic portion of his introspection of his narration with intelligence health, Tom told Entertainment Weekly that helium has present been sober for a twelvemonth and 4 months.
"Learning astir intelligence wellness and the powerfulness of it," the 26-year-old, who stars arsenic Danny Sullivan successful the series, explained to the outlet successful an interview published May 9, "and speaking to psychiatrists astir Danny and Billy's struggles, has been thing that has been truthful informative to my ain life."
The Apple TV+ series—which besides stars Amanda Seyfried, Emmy Rossum, and Sasha Lane—follows Tom's quality who is arrested pursuing a shooting astatine Rockefeller successful 1979.
While Tom didn't elaborate connected his sobriety journey, helium said the enactment was particularly helpful for "recognizing triggers" and "things that accent [him] out." This includes societal media, which he's antecedently spoken retired astir needing to measurement backmost from.
Last summer, Tom shared that helium was taking a societal media interruption owed to his intelligence health, noting successful a video posted to Instagram astatine the time, "There is an atrocious stigma against mental health and I cognize that asking for assistance and seeking assistance isn't thing we should beryllium ashamed of."
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In summation to opening him up to a deeper knowing of his intelligence health, The Crowded Room besides allowed the histrion to research a antithetic avenue than his blockbuster roles successful Uncharted and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
"I've spent truthful agelong playing Nathan Drake and playing Spider-Man, who are characters that you tin beryllium on, radical you consciousness harmless around, and, ultimately, radical that consciousness truly capable," Tom said. "I truly enjoyed playing Danny successful those earlier episodes wherever I was capable to thin into my much susceptible side."
Still, determination were moments wherever helium dug truthful heavy into Danny's mindset, helium had occupation separating himself from the character.
"I was seeing myself successful him, but successful my idiosyncratic life," Tom admitted. "I retrieve having a spot of a meltdown astatine location and thinking, like, 'I'm going to shave my head. I request to shave my caput due to the fact that I request to get escaped of this character.'"
For him, it was dissimilar "anything [he'd] ever experienced before."
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