Tom Holland: Spider-Man star to take a year-long break from acting
BBC 2023-06-09 14:58:57 • 3 mins
By Paul Glynn
Entertainment reporter
Tom Holland has said he will take a year-long break from acting in order to look after his mental health.
The English Spider-Man star admitted he had a "tough time" while working on his latest project, The Crowded Room, and had been left feeling broken by it.
Holland, 27, both stars in and produced the Apple TV+ thriller series.
It sees him play a character loosely based on "the campus rapist" Billy Milligan, a US man who claimed to have 24 alternate personalities.
Milligan was the first person to be found not guilty of his crimes by reason of insanity - on the basis of dissociative identity disorder - and instead of going to prison he spent a decade in psychiatric hospitals.
