JK Simmons might have been in two MCU movies as J Jonah Jameson, but he’s actually never met Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland.
On an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Simmons admitted “I’ve not met Tom Holland,” and added: “Delightful guy, I’m told.”
Simmons first appeared in the MCU in Spider-Man: Far From Home, then returned again in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Of course, he also played the same character in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, though this is a different version of him thanks to the multiverse. And, since Peter Parker doesn’t work for this Jonah, they’ve never crossed paths.
“In the third iteration, when that came along, to do a little sort of cameo reprise, that was a complete shock and a very last minute decision,” Simmons explained in the same interview. “Which I still think is why JJJ doesn’t have hair in the Tom Holland Spider-Man universe, because they literally called my agent, we had a meeting the next day, and it was like a day or two later I was shooting in somebody’s office, some executive’s office on the lot because there was no set. They were well into editing the film when they went, ‘What if we stuck a little JJJ in here?'”
Spider-Man: Brand New Day picks up in the aftermath of No Way Home, which saw the entire multiverse forget Peter Parker. This time, Peter is going up against an unknown foe, with the help of Jon Bernthal’s Punisher and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk.
Brand New Day arrives this July 31. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows.