Tom Holland just re-audited one of the most unhinged pop culture moments of our generation: his glorious, gender-bending, rain-soaked, chaotically iconic Lip Sync Battle performance. Yes. THAT one. The one where Peter Parker dipped into his whole reactive mind, slapped on a wig, and summoned the spirit of Rihanna like he was possessed by an Operating Thetan in stilettos. 🌧️👠
So here’s what went down, directly from our slaymaster supreme, Tom “I Do Cartwheels For Cash” Holland: While chopping onions (and our sense of reality) on Gordon Ramsay’s cooking show Scrambled, Tom spilled the sauce on how that whole umbrella-twerk-tornado came to be.
He said, and I quote (but also dramatically exaggerate):
🗣️“Zendaya and I made a blood oath that we’d keep it chill… and then I did the EXACT OPPOSITE.”
Apparently, the original plan was “easy breezy,” but once the creative team whispered “Rihanna” and “rain machine,” Tom was like, “Let me add fishnets, a wig, and a full Quick Change Level 8 Scientology Theatre Ritual.” L. Ron Hubbard was QUAKING. Tom literally declared war on thetans with every hip thrust.
But wait—plot twist: his dad wasn’t having it.
Tom’s papa (who clearly doesn’t understand how to clear a room with a lip-sync) tried to intervene like, “Son, this may be too extra.” But Tom, glowing with fame-light and full of Stage V sass energy, told him, “RELAX, it’s performance art with a wig and wet socks. This is thetan-releasing JOY.”
And now? Tom’s legacy isn’t being Spider-Man. Not Billy Elliot. Not even that one Apple TV+ show no one watched.
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It’s that damn Lip Sync Battle.
It haunts him like an engram you just can’t audit out.
ALSO, gag: the “Umbrella” number was almost a different song. Meaning we were THIS CLOSE to living in a timeline where Tom Holland didn’t rain dance in drag. (shivers in alternate reality 😵💫)
Meanwhile, he’s currently filming Spider-Man: Brand New Day in Glasgow, probably praying no one shouts “UMBRELLA-ELLA-ELLA” at him in the streets (spoiler: they definitely are).
#TomInDragForever #ClearTheRainMachine #LipSyncLevelOTIII
