Tom Holland reveals he’s been sober for over a year as he discusses how his drama series The Crowded Room taught him to recognize his ‘triggers’
Tom Holland recently opened up and revealed he’s been sober for a year and four months.
Speaking about his upcoming Apple TV+ show The Crowded Room, the 26-year-old actor shared how working on the miniseries changed his perspective on mental health.
The Spider-Man star told Weekly entertainment that after working on the psychological thriller, he got better at “recognizing triggers” and “things that stress me out.”
The Uncharted alum – who was seen in character and filming in New York City last year — also said he spoke with psychiatrists to better understand his role.
In the interview, he talked about how this was “so informative about my own life.”
Opening: Tom Holland recently opened up and revealed he’s been sober for a year and four months
“Learning about mental health and its power, and talking to psychiatrists about Danny (his character) and Billy’s struggles, is something that has been so informative for my own life,” Holland told the publication.
Because of the show, he also said he hopes that viewers will have “more respect and more sympathy for people who have mental health problems.”
He then added, “I hope people will feel educated about the powers of mental health, the struggle, [and] our incredible abilities to survive.’
While the show helped his mental health in some ways, he admitted that the emotional nature of the role and heavy subject matter were also very taxing.
“I’m no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action movie thing,” he said. “But the mental aspect, it really beat me up, and it took me a long time to recover after that, to sort of get back to reality.”
At one point, he explained that after nine months of filming, he had to break away from his character.
“I saw myself in him, but in my personal life I remember breaking down a little bit at home and thinking, ‘I’m going to shave my head. I have to shave my head because I have to get rid of this character,'” he recalled .
“And of course we were in the middle of shooting so I decided not to do it… It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before,” he continued.
Mental health: While speaking about his upcoming Apple TV+ show The Crowded Room, the 26-year-old actor shared how working on the miniseries changed his perspective on mental health. In the show, Holland plays Danny Sullvian, an antisocial young man who is arrested after being mistaken for the culprit behind a shocking crime.
Educational role: The Spider-Man star told Entertainment Weekly that he got better at “recognizing triggers” and “things that stress me out” after working on the psychological thriller
Amanda Seyfried will also star opposite Holland as Rya Goodwin, a clinical psychologist tasked with the most challenging case of her career to date
Coming soon: The first three episodes of The Crowded Room will premiere on June 9. The next seven episodes will air weekly on Apple TV+; Zachary Golinger and Emmy Rossum also star in the show
In the show, Holland plays Danny Sullvian – an antisocial young man who is arrested after being mistaken for the perpetrator of a shocking crime.
According to the synopsis, “an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it before the real criminal strikes again.”
The show also stars: Emmy Rossum as Danny’s mother, Candy; Will Chase as his stepfather, Marlin; and Sam Vartholomeos and Levon Hawke as his friends Mike and Johnny, respectively.
Amanda Seyfried also stars opposite Holland as Rya Goodwin, a clinical psychologist tasked with the most challenging case of her career to date.
The first three episodes of The Crowded Room will premiere on June 9. The next seven episodes will air weekly on Apple TV+.