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"I've been playing two very famous characters
who are famous for climbing things," the 25-year-old British
actor told Reuters.
"It was important to us to create this unique style for Nathan
Drake so there were no similarities to Spider-Man at all but...
when you're making these big films, it's exciting to see how far
you can push the limits, to what you can do physically, to
design these sequences to be unique and be fresh and new."
Nathan Drake is the male equivalent of Lara Croft in the gaming
world, breaking into secret tombs and avoiding deadly traps to
seek out ancient artifacts.
Holland does his fair share of daring stunts but the film's
promotion focuses on a sequence where Drake falls out the back
of a plane and struggles to get back onboard.
Holland described the stunt as "the hardest thing I've ever done
from a physical point of view," spending nearly every day for
five weeks in a studio being wired up 100 feet (31m) from the
ground.
"We shredded our hands to bits and it was exhausting but rightly
so," he said. "It's a really impressive sequence and I think
that kind of level of physicality really comes through on screen
but it was knackering. It was absolutely brutal."
Mark Wahlberg was originally supposed to play Drake in the
adaptation but was moved to the older mentor character of Sully
when production finally got underway.
"At first, I was like, wait a second, I've got one more fight
left in me, but then I was like, this is absolutely perfect,"
said the 50-year-old American actor.
"We really enjoyed harping on about Sully being a little bit
older, always having some sort of excuse not to engage with the
physicality... I'm certainly embracing getting older."
As Spider-Man and Drake, Holland is fast becoming the biggest
action hero for his generation.
"A rom-com would be nice if I'm honest but... I like pushing
myself and seeing what I can do," said Holland.
"That said, I am actively looking for a film where I can lie
down and do nothing for a while."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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