Tom Holland: from Billy Elliot's buddy to the latest Brit cast as a US superhero
This week saw the 19-year-old Londoner become the third cinematic incarnation of Spider-Man, but what is it about British actors that says hero to Hollywood?The search for a new Spider-Man had prompted months of speculation, but the announcement this week that 19-year-old Tom Holland would be donning the spandex suit and following in the web tracks of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield still came as something of a sur…