Tom Holland Recounts the Battle of Keeping on His Fake Mustache in ‘Lost City of Z’
Lost City of Z, now in theaters with a limited release, is based on the true story of explorer Percy Fawcett’s journeys to the Amazon in the early 20th Century. The story follows Fawcett and his family for more than a decade, so moves had to be made to age up some of the stars, including Tom Holland. The Spider-Man: Homecoming star plays Jack Fawcett, son of Percy (Charlie Hunnam). Holland starts off playing Jack as a preteen, and he eventually grows into adulthood.
Holland tells Yahoo Movies how they made him look older. “I remember when we were shooting in Belfast and [director James Gray said], ‘Tom, I think I’m going to give you a mustache for the jungle,'” he recounted. “You know, I’m the person where you say, ‘Jump,’ I say ‘How high?’ But in my head, I was like, ‘Please don’t stick a mustache on my face. That’s going to be so awful.’ But I’m glad we did because it looks great.”
So it might have looked great on film, and Holland isn’t the type to complain, but he was honest about how he felt about the ‘stache. “I hated it, man,” he told our Kevin Polowy. “I’m not going to lie. I’m only just now being able to grow facial hair, and it’s still super embarrassing. It’s not manly at all.”
Of course, shooting in the steamy jungles of South America could imperil even the strongest of spirit gums. “It was a stick-on mustache, and it was the hardest part of [filming in] the jungle, I think, because it would just fall off all the time,” Holland recounted. “I was sweating so much, it would just fall off and it was flapping about. It was really not fun. But it looked cool!”
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