Shadowing Practice: Nobody Can Handle Tom Holland's INSANE Humor - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Tom Holland treats professionalism like more of a suggestion than a rule.

Underneath all that charm is a guy who genuinely can't help himself, and these are his funniest moments.

I was at the Hollywood Spotlight Awards or something, I was with my lovely mum, and I was very excited.

I went to the toilet, I was 11, so I was probably about the same height.

And I remember looking, I was taking a, I was at the urinal like this, I remember looking up and seeing Superman next to me.

And then I looked down.

No!

Tom Holland DM'd Erling Holland and got completely ignored.

No response.

Nothing.

Here's what he had to say about it.

I saw somewhere that you DM'd Erling Holland and he didn't respond to you.

Yeah.

You... That you...

Er...

Erling Holland had no idea who Tom Holland was when he DM'd him and asked to hang out.

He doesn't watch movies so he thought that he was a random person.

Now, tell us the truth.

Did you DM Erling Holland?

Yes.

And I tell you what, that is exactly the type of humbling experience that is important for actors.

You know, I'll text him, I'll take him to dinner.

Not even a response.

Not an excuse, not I'm busy tonight, I'm playing football.

Nada.

I need to watch this movie.

You haven't seen Spider -Man Homecoming?

I haven't seen the Falcon movie.

Oh no, there isn't one.

Sorry.

Tom's acting skills speak for themselves better than almost anyone out there.

But when he got asked to name his favorite actors, here's what he had to say.

Tom, who's your favorite actor in the whole world?

Liam Hemsworth is up there, man.

He's great.

He's great, isn't he?

Yeah.

He's really good.

Any other Hemsworths that...

Luke Hemsworth is also super talented.

Yeah.

Super, super talented.

And he's got to have one more Hemsworth.

Any, would there be...

I think...

Would it start with a C?

India Hemsworth has potential.

She could grow up to be a great actress one day, I'm sure.

Okay, let's move on.

Tom Holland's height has basically become a running joke on every set he's on.

But when Zendaya decided to weigh in on it herself, things got hilarious fast.

I heard you talking somewhere, Zendaya, how your height difference makes those stunts more complicated.

Thank you, Graham.

I didn't say it.

Didn't dare say it.

Spider -Man swings us on top of a bridge, and he places me there.

Oh, there you are.

And that's the bridge.

Yeah, that's the bridge.

We eventually jump off of that.

I was screaming.

So he's supposed to gently, you know, rest MJ on the bridge and walk away from her.

It.. because of our height difference, I obviously.. if we're on the same, like, point...

Yeah, because we were attached.

We were attached.

I would land before him.

My feet obviously hit the ground before he does. So...

I'm the superhero.

I'm supposed to look cool.

And she would land, and then I would sort of land like this, and my feet would swing from underneath me, and then she would catch me.

Tom Holland's first kiss didn't exactly go the way he planned.

It started as a dare, and ended with the girl having zero interest in him.

Here's the story straight from him.

What was your first kiss like?

Oh, the first time I ever made out with someone.

Shout out to Megan Jossa, wherever you are.

Oh!

Name dropped.

It was, I was in Billy Elliot.

We were backstage, and Megan, one of the Debbies, was in the room, and I was dared to make out with her.

She had no interest in kissing me, but she was dared to, and I made out with her for all of three seconds.

And we had shot the medium, I think I shot the close -ups, and I was gonna go back for a medium close -up.

I'll be here all week.

Thank you.

I'll just stand, shall I?

Should we all just move it to the floor and should we have a little...

Instagram's about to explode.

Tom Holland accidentally ghosted Robert Downey Jr. And he still hasn't fully gotten over it.

Robert Downey Jr. who of course you've worked with in many films.

Yes.

You have...

You have his phone number, which is a pretty cool thing.

I do, yeah.

I do have his phone number.

He...

I was...

Where were we?

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I think we were in London.

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And he FaceTimed me at 2 in the morning.

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Okay.

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And I didn't even check to see who it was.

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I was like, oh, who is that?

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And I was like hung up.

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And then I woke up in the morning and in my phone, and he's saved as the godfather.

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So I woke up and I panicked.

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I was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry.

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I didn't mean to ghost you.

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And he didn't, he obviously didn't reply for ages because of the time difference in L .A.

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So that was maybe the most stressful day of my life where I thought my relationship with Downey was over.

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Yeah, but imagine how stressed out he was being like, oh, my God, I got ghosted by Tom.

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Is that really what it's come to?

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On Spider -Man 3, I have this really quite intense sequence with Doc Ock where I'm upside down and he's, like, battering me into this wall just constantly.

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Honestly, I really have nothing to complain about.

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You know, being Spider -Man has changed my life, but I am absolutely going to complain about this day.

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And I'm complaining, I'm whinging about the day.

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I'm like, you know, I'm so tired and he's working me so hard and I just want a break.

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And my brother Harry's like, mate, you're Spider -Man.

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Suck it up and get on with it.

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You'll be fine.

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So the next day on set, I'm chatting to the director about the week's work coming, and he's telling me about this scene.

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They need a young person to play a burglar who Spider -Man's going to catch.

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And he's going, do you think Harry would want to do it?

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I'm like, bollocks to Harry, he's doing it.

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So we hire Harry, we've cast Harry, he's on set, I go up to the stunt coordinator and I'm like, please, just whatever you do with the stunt, make it so that he's upside down.

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So we're doing this scene, Harry's upside down, swinging back and forward, and bless him, he's doing a really good job.

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But he's driving home that day and he's like, mate, you can complain as much as you want.

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That was brutal.

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And I was like, well, mate, you know, but the icing on the cake, and I don't think he actually knows this, we saw the first film the other day and they've cut the scene.

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Tom Holland's Spider - Homecoming interview had one small problem, the chair.

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He just could not figure out what to do with himself on it.

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Watch him struggle through the whole thing.

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So give me a sense, okay, going into this one...

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This is a really uncomfortable chair.

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Trying to find the best.

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You're so sliding.

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You can go however you want.

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Let's pretend.

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Don't ruin this for me.

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Yeah, this is the most...

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I can't sit like this, don't I?

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Okay, here we go.

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Next time we'll get your writer about the specific chair you need.

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I need you guys to get me a proper chair.

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Harrison?

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Peter, are you hiding something?

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With great power comes great responsibility.

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Are you doing Batman?

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Where are I?

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Okay, that's not even the right cinematic universe.

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Yes, it is.

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No, it's definitely not.

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You're wrong, it is.

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There's been crossovers, there has.

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I've seen them.

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Tom, if you keep doing this, we're gonna get sued.

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I have so much money, I'm Batman.

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No, you're not Batman.

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Tom Holland went to the gym with Jake Gyllenhaal and immediately wished he hadn't.

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Here's why.

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Jake asked me if I wanted to go to the gym.

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And I have to be honest, I didn't want to go.

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Because Jake Gyllenhaal's ripped, right?

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Yeah.

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And I'm really competitive.

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You're fit.

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You're fit.

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Well, I'm not Jake Gyllenhaal.

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He's a big guy.

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He is, yeah.

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So anyway, so we go to the gym, we start working out, you know, we're doing ab exercises and leg exercises.

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And then he turns to me and he goes, uh, Tom, do you want to hop on the treadmill and warm up?

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I'm like, warm up?

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I'm roasting, mate.

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I'm finished.

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And there's like a law in the gym that you can't run slower than the guy next to you.

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You just can't.

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There's a lot of pressure.

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So I'm running next to him, two minutes in, I've got a stitch, I'm wishing everything was over.

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And then, like, three, four minutes in, he goes, Tom, this is too easy, let's up the incline.

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I'm like, yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

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Let's do it.

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So we up the incline, four or five more kilometers go by.

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He goes, this is too easy.

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Let's up it to three.

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And then we're doing press later that day, and I can't walk.

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Genuinely, I'm sitting there, and a journalist goes, what's wrong with you?

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And I said, well, I do all of my own stunts.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Nobody Can Handle Tom Holland's INSANE Humor”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: Tom, Holland, Spider. This video has 189 sentences and 1588 words to shadow. The speech runs for 8:16. The speaker talks fast, about 192 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
stunt noun	/stʌnt/	A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
complain verb	/kəmˈpleɪn/	To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
dare verb	/dɛ(ə)ɹ/	To have enough courage (to do something).
upside noun	/ˈʌpˌsaɪd/	The highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
incline verb	/ɪnˈklaɪn/	To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
attach verb	/əˈtæt͡ʃ/	To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
underneath adverb	/ˌʌndɚˈniθ/	Below; in a place beneath.
genuinely adverb	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/	In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly.
talented adjective	/ˈtæləntɪd/	Endowed with one or more talents.
burglar noun	/ˈbɝɡlɚ/	A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing a crime, usually theft.
godfather noun	/ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/	A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.
kinematic adjective	/kɪn.əˈmæt.ɪk/	Of or relating to motion or to kinematics.
professionalism noun	/pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlɪzəm/	The status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization, such as reliability, discretion, evenhandedness, and…
treadmill noun	/ˈtɹɛd.mɪl/	A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
urinal adjective	/ˈjʊɹɪnəl/	Synonym of urinary.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
make out with verb		See make out, with.
warm up verb	/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/	To become warmer.
close up verb	/kləʊzˈʌp/	To close (remove a gap) completely or fully.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get on with verb		To proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.
get over verb		To overcome.
look down verb		To lower one's eyes; to direct one's look downwards.
look up verb	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	To have better prospects.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Tom, who's your favorite actor in the whole world?
What was your first kiss like?
I'll just stand, shall I?
I was like, oh, who is that?
I can't sit like this, don't I?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	haven't seen · you've worked · has changed
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were attached · was dared
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	guy who genuinely · number, which is
Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past	was taking · was screaming · was being

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 75 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, didn't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, godfather /ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: professionalism /pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlɪzəm/, shout /ʃaʊt/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, kinematic /kɪn.əˈmæt.ɪk/, professionalism /pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlɪzəm/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like stunt, complain, dare.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

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