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Tom Holland just found out that being Spider-Man does nothing for you against 2 million Scoville units.

The Season 16 finale of “Hot Ones” dropped on December 9, 2021, and it put Tom Holland squarely in the hot seat — literally — a week before “Spider-Man: No Way Home” hits theaters on December 17. Host Sean Evans put Holland through the show’s signature gauntlet of ten progressively spicier chicken wings while grilling him on everything from his childhood stage career to his friendship with Robert Downey Jr. By the ninth and tenth sauces, the interview stopped being an interview and turned into a survival story.

• The 27-minute episode, released as the Season 16 finale, timed Holland’s appearance to the promotional run for “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” out December 17, 2021.
• Holland worked through all ten wings on the Hot Ones lineup, with the heat climbing into the hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of Scoville units by the ninth and tenth sauces.
• Between bites, Evans covered Holland’s start as a 12-year-old in the West End production of “Billy Elliot,” his love of British pub food, and his mentor relationship with Robert Downey Jr. on the “Iron Man” sets.

The Gauntlet Gets to Him

Holland came in loose and joking, the way most Hot Ones guests do before sauce number seven starts doing the talking. That composure didn’t survive the back half of the lineup. As the Scoville counts climbed into six figures and then seven, Holland’s bravado gave way to real distress — sweating, gasping between answers, and at one point pleading for medical help as the burn set in.

I’m seeing double, man!

It’s the kind of moment Hot Ones has built its whole format around — a global movie star reduced to begging the camera crew for mercy over chicken wings. Evans doesn’t let up on the questions either way, which is exactly why the format has become a go-to stop for actors doing press tours, not unlike the way stars have learned to brace themselves for pointed questions in other high-profile interview settings.

Billy Elliot to the MCU

Long before he was swinging through Queens as Spider-Man, Holland was an 12-year-old West End performer in “Billy Elliot,” and he told Evans plenty about those early years on stage. That theatrical training is part of why Holland has become one of the more reliably candid interview subjects on the celebrity circuit — he answers questions directly instead of hiding behind talking points, a trait that stands out compared to actors who deflect the same way stars often deflect from disrespectful interviewers.

He also dug into his fondness for classic British pub food, a detail that felt almost cruel given what Evans was serving him instead. The contrast between a plate of proper pub grub and the Da Bomb-tier sauces on the Hot Ones table became its own running joke through the episode.

The Robert Downey Jr. Connection

Some of the most substantive material in the interview came when Holland discussed his relationship with Robert Downey Jr., his “Iron Man” co-star and, by his own account, a mentor figure through his rise inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Holland described the working dynamic and the behind-the-scenes stories that came with stepping into a franchise built around Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark years before Holland ever put on the suit.

That mentorship thread matters beyond nostalgia — Holland was, at the time of the interview, about to headline the biggest Spider-Man release yet, one built explicitly around the multiverse mythology Downey Jr.’s era helped establish. The Marvel connective tissue between the two actors gave the interview a weight that most Hot Ones episodes don’t carry, even by the standards of a show known for getting celebrities to open up.

Holland made it through all ten wings, doctor jokes and all, closing out Season 16 on the hottest note the show could offer him a week before “No Way Home” opened wide on December 17.