“‘It sounds like your dreams are coming true.'”
“It’s a story about heartbreak.
It’s a story about love.
Sam Vartholomeos, Tom Holland, and Levon Hawke in ‘The Crowded Room’.Stephanie Mei-Ling/Apple TV+
It’s a story about betrayal.
And, most of all, it’s a story about a young kid’s determination to survive.”
“He took this character to heart.
Sasha Lane and Tom Holland in ‘The Crowded Room’.Stephanie Mei-Ling/Apple TV+
It was an unbelievably challenging piece,” he tells EW.
“We shot 130 days in a row.
I’m excited for him, because I don’t think people have seen him this way.”
Emmy Rossum and Amanda Seyfried in ‘The Crowded Room’.Stephanie Mei-Ling/Apple TV+
(Milligan was arrested forrape, aggravated robbery, and kidnappingin 1979.)
“That you would feel connected to and so his journey would become the audience’s journey.”
Piecing together the mystery at the heart of the series, however, proved a bit more challenging.
“It’s a serialized 10-hour piece but it moves around.
The point of view moves around.
Each one is its own adventure in finding the puzzle.”
Although fictional, stepping into such heavy subject material took a real personal toll on Holland.
“I was seeing myself in him, but in my personal life,” he explains.
I need to shave my head because I need to get rid of this character.’
And, obviously, we were mid-shooting, so I decided not to…
It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before."
