J.K. Simmons and Tom Holland apparently never crossed paths on the sets of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home and 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home. Simmons, who played J. Jonah Jameson in both films, says he has never actually met Holland, who plays the titular Spider-Man.
Simmons appeared on podcast Happy Sad Confused this week to discuss his career and admitted that he has still yet to encounter his co-star. “I have not met Tom Holland,” Simmons acknowledged. “Delightful guy, I’m told.”
The actor first embodied Jameson in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man trilogy, which kicked off with 2002’s Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi. Simmons didn’t play the role in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, which rebooted the franchise with Andrew Garfield at the superhero, or its sequel. Despite rumors to the contrary, Simmons said he was never due to appear in those films.
“The only conversations that I was aware of were the ones that people would call my attention to on the Internet,” he confirmed. “Maybe this, or maybe that.” He added that when the opportunity came up to do a cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home that was “a complete shock and a very last-minute decision.”“They literally called my agent, we had a meeting the next day, and it was like a day or two later [that] I was shooting in somebody’s office,” he recalled. “Some executive’s office on the lot. Because there was no set. They were well into editing the film when they went, ‘What if we stuck a little JJJ in here?'”
Simmons’ new series, The Westies, arrives this weekend. The actor stars as gang boss Eamon Sweeney. He has so far claimed that he’s not in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which premieres in theaters on July 29 and sees Holland reprising his role. “Not in it, dude,” Simmons told ComicBook. “I don’t know who on the Internet decided that that was fact, but I ain’t in it.”
