Sony approached the "Lip Sync Battle" producers with the idea of doing a Holland vs. Representatives for Zendaya and Rihanna did not respond to requests for comment.) The concept (A representative for Holland told Insider that he was "respectfully declining interview requests for the near future." Representatives for show host LL Cool J and co-host Chrissy Teigen declined requests for comment. "I get more compliments from dancing in the rain in fishnets than anything I've done."īelow, to celebrate the episode's 4th anniversary, those who worked on it - including producers, choreographers, writers, and dancers - reveal to Insider how the seminal moment in pop culture history came to be. "That 'Lip Sync Battle' is kind of one of those things that has kind of come back to haunt me a little bit," Holland told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year. Holland, Zendaya, and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" director John Watt. (You can buy your own on Etsy.) Nary an interview goes by where Holland isn't asked about his performance. Holland's "Spider-Man" co-star Jacob Batalon wore a hoodie emblazoned with a caricature of Holland mid-routine. Clips of the routine go viral with soothing regularity. TikTok is full of dancers recreating his "Umbrella" choreography. And the show itself, which was in its third season, was an institution: it had attracted guests like Anne Hathaway, who swung from the ceiling on a giant wrecking ball, and Channing Tatum, who strutted to "Run the World (Girls)" with the actual Beyoncé.īut it was Holland's show-stopping choreography that would win him the mantle of the most famous, and beloved, routine in the show's history. The first three performances of the fateful episode - Zendaya's takes on Erykah Badu's "Tyrone" and Bruno Mars' "24K Magic," plus Holland's version of Nelly's "Ride Wit Me" - are powerful in their own right. "Lip Sync Battle" would be part of his first major publicity tour, and, for many Americans, their first introduction to Holland. When he appeared on the May 7 episode with his friend and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" co-star Zendaya, Holland had already played Spider-Man in 2016's "Captain America: Civil War." But "Homecoming," set for release 2 months later, would be his first leading role as the superhero.
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