He's a *brit* *actor* (not some yank pretty boy- which is exactly why non-yanks keep getting cast as yank superheroes). The advantage of *actors* is that they can *act*- including playing younger and older. Lighter and more mature.
So the comments here are mostly *dribble* based on how Holland looks as spidey.
The US *star* system and the US love of *models* in media limits the concept of actual real acting by americans in american drama. Yanks want their fellows to either always be the *exact* same person in each movie (the 'star'), or they expect a model with perfect features.
I feel very sorry for any up and coming talented american actor in a system that despises such talents from the natives. And they did their level best to cast a yank as the current Spiderman, yet a brit kid did the iconic character so much better in the auditions. Just think about that fact for a time.
PS as silly as it is. most people (myself included) like the US star system when it is producing actual stars with good on-screen personalities. But when one sees *acting*, real *acting*, everything is elevated to such a higher level.
I'm not a Holland fan, but I suspect he looks up to fellow brit Christian Bale, who first broke out in Spielberg's clunker 'Empire of the Sun'. And then went 'Psycho- American Psycho'.