There’s a scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home where Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal shake hands. It’s not a particularly exciting scene, just a brief moment where Holland’s webslinger and Gyllenhaal’s magician Mysterio meet for the first time and greet each other.
For a continent-hopping superhero movie that includes aerial acrobatics, visual effects wizardry, and action set pieces filmed across several European countries, shooting a handshake should’ve been easy. Should’ve. In reality, that maneuver took dozens of takes — because every time Holland and Gyllenhaal would clasp hands and lock eyes, they’d collapse into giggles. “Tom was tired, and he just couldn’t keep it together,” Gyllenhaal explains. “Every single time we would shake hands, he would start laughing, so I’d start laughing, and we both couldn’t stop laughing. That went on for about 30 minutes. It was about 45 to 50 takes, and it was a disaster.”
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