Tom Holland says he felt like a '5-year-old kid again' while working with Willem Dafoe in 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'

• Tom Holland spoke about his experience working with Willem Dafoe in "Spider-Man: No Way Home."
• Holland recalled feeling "like a 5-year-old kid again, watching him in the theater," during a rehearsal.

Tom Holland said that filming "Spider-Man: No Way Home" with Willem Dafoe made him feel like he was reliving his younger days as a fan of the veteran actor.

"In the rehearsal, he starts doing the laugh and saying all this different stuff about how much he hates Peter Parker and we're doing this fight scene and I just became like a 5-year-old kid again, watching him in the theater," Holland recalled in a video for the bonus features of the movie's digital release.

Dafoe first portrayed Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's 2002 movie "Spider-Man," which starred Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Although his character was killed, Dafoe returned for the remaining installments of Raimi's trilogy, which were released in 2004 and 2007.

Most recently, Dafoe reprised the role for "No Way Home," Holland's third standalone movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

The film was released in December and brought back characters from Maguire and Andrew Garfield's separate "Spider-Man" franchises, including Dafoe, by way of the multiverse.

Dafoe's Goblin served as the primary villain of the film and had two major fights against Holland's Spider-Man, one at Happy Hogan's (Jon Favreau) apartment and another at the Statue of Liberty renovation site.

Holland told Collider that he and Dafoe "collapsed" while filming the latter scene because of how much energy they both exerted.

"We all believe so much in these characters and we give it 110%," Holland said. "I know in my fight scene with the Goblin, I bust my hand up. My knuckles were bloodied and we were really going for it. We were putting everything into it."

He added: "I remember on the last day of shooting that fight scene when Jon said cut, Willem and I both just collapsed to the floor because we were exhausted and we just had given him everything."