Tom Holland

With all the recent talk about Childs Play and a possible remake of Frightnight I got to thinking about Tom Holland and whatever became of him. Per the IMDB Thinner was his last project and that was 1996.

Anyone know?

I...don't...know...

I thought it was here but a search revealed nothing.

I sometimes have trouble telling my dreams apart from real life though.

Um...somebody back me up here. There was talk about a Fright Night remake wasn't there?

...whew...

http://www.creature-corner.com/news4/mar05afmnews.php3

Tom Holland swore at me!

I was a PA on The Stranger Within, a film that was shot in the Twin Cities. I had just graduated from college and got back from London and I needed a job. A friend of mine was working on the film and he got me in. First I was a driver but that was dull. We were the first people on the set and the last people to leave and we had to stay on location and available the whole time in between. Since I didn't smoke marijuana like the rest of the drivers I didn't have all that much to do but hang around and be bored. It was fun for the first 16 hour day but after that...meh. Kate Jackson was real sick, I'm taller than Chris Saradon and lil' Ricki Schroder was an odd guy (he was later accused by a wardrobe assistant of sexual harrasment. I'm not sure how it all turned out).

To kill time I just started doing different jobs around the place. I wasn't really supposed to because of the unions but I made friends with different people and they helped me out. I painting sets for a while. I also picked up a walkie talkie and did crowd control during some street scenes. At one point Holland was just sitting there staring at me. He must have seen me doing jobs here and there but couldn't figure out why I kept popping up all over. Every so often I would catch him just looking at me. (See a lot of us were being paid in cash at the end of the night . I don't know how the union guys didn't catch on but they were probably high as well. Pretty much everybody seemed to be).

One day I was told to go to Tom Hollands trailer. He needed something. So I went, scared as hell. I opened the door and smoke billowed out like the place was on fire. I go in and there's a bunch of guys sitting around a table. I think I recognized one of them as Walter Hill (I learned later that it was a bunch of the Tales From the Crypt dudes working on the start up of the series). Anyways Holland was sitting there and he told me to bring the dailys to the production office to be sent off. I had no idea what he was talking about! In theory I knew what dailys were but I didn't know what they looked like. I envisioned the old time film cans. So I kind of just stood there with a stupid look on my face. Holland says, "They're over there." I looked to where he was pointing and there's a whole pile of stuff. So I just stand there again. Nobodys talking anymore, they are just staring at me now. So Holland says again, "On the counter!" I don't know anything at this point, the fight or flight reaction was kicking in. Finally he loses it "The tapes, the goddamn tapes! The ones on the fucking counter!"

I see a stack of tapes, grab them and run the hell out of the place. I have no idea if they were the dailys or not. Still don't. But I brought them back to the Production Office and asked a guy I knew if I could work there for the rest of the film and he said that was fine. I became the official script updater and all around lunch getter guy!

I don't think that makes Tom Holland mean I guess, no more than everybody else on the set. They were all grumpy and easily irritated. Expect the office folks. They were great! Tom Holland's personal driver during the shoot told me that he was having a really hard time with the film and I guess at one time broke down to his wife while getting driven back to his hotel. I felt kind of bad for him after that.

Of note. 15 years later the office building I work in now is connected to a warehouse. This warehouse is where we parked the set cars at the end of the day all that time ago.