It's been 16 months since Tom Holland touched a drop of alcohol. Without giving details about this new sobriety, the actor makes the connection between his abstinence and what he learned about mental health during the filming of The Crowded Room. The series is fictional based on a real crime, adapted from a 1981 book that tells the story of Billy Mulligan. Arrested in the late 1970s, accused of raping three women in Ohio, Milligan was acquitted after his lawyers first pleaded "dissociative identity disorder."
The fictional version transposes the action to New York in 1979, the accused is named Danny Sullivan and the rapes became a shooting in the middle of Rockefeller Center. Holland/Sullivan is an antisocial that an inspector (played by Amanda Seyfried) will want to exonerate in order to stop the real killer.
The crisis
To best embody his character, Tom Holland spoke with psychiatrists. During these interviews, the actor made connections with his "own life". In the end, it was very difficult for him to get out of the role. "I saw myself in him, in my personal life. I remember a slight lead in my house, when I thought I'd shave my head because I thought it was the only way out of character," he told Entertainment Weekly.
In the end, he did not do anything, the filming was not finished at the time of his crisis, he says. Alcohol isn't the only addiction Tom Holland quit to get better. The Spider-Man star had previously said she had distanced herself from social networks that were also undermining her mental health. The Crowded Room will be available on Apple TV+ on June 9.
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