Plenty of fans who are into tabletop gaming might have noticed that Pixar’s upcoming movie, Onward, is an awful lot like a modern-day Dungeons & Dragons adventure. It’s a world filled with elves and unicorns, trolls and dragons, and the story of two brothers who are given a magical quest to find the rest of a spell that will bring their dead father back for a day.

Those two brothers are voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, and last night, at the Onward world premiere, IGN asked Holland if he’d ever personally played D&D. Holland confessed he hasn’t, but then revealed that he and Pratt had come up with an excellent idea: Get their Marvel castmates together to play: “I haven’t, no, but Chris and I have been talking about setting up an Avengers D&D session,” he said, “which would be amazing. We actually want to like film it, because it would be really fun. Not livestream it, because I don’t do–”

It was at that moment that someone informed Holland that D&D is indeed played live and he got anxious thinking about the pressure to get it right: “It is live! Oh ok, I’m really stressed now.”

Of course he is, our sweet cinnamon roll of a human puppy. It’s alright, Tom, D&D is meant to be imperfect; you make the story up as you go along! But the famously anxious and easily-stressed actor also revealed last night that Pratt once talked him off the ledge and comforted him during an upsetting low point of his career: The weekend that he had to appear onstage at D23 right after news broke that Spider-Man was out of the MCU. He and Pratt were both there to promote Onward and Pratt calmed him down and got his head back in the game, Holland revealed to Variety:

While he credited everyone as being “really supportive,” he singled out Pratt for being the one friend to help him right when he needed it most:

“Chris and I were standing backstage [at D23] together before we were called out on stage. I was telling him the news and he hadn’t heard it yet and he was like, ‘No, that’s not gonna happen. That’s not gonna happen. They’re going to figure it out and if not, you’ll be great. You’ll be fine,’ so it was just really nice to have him in my corner because he’s something I really look up to and someone I really appreciate and I’m glad that we’re good buddies.”

But, as we now know, that was the weekend that Holland started working to get Disney and Sony back to the negotiating table pointing to the outpouring of love and support for Spider-Man from fans and their upset that he would no longer be in the MCU. Do we secretly have Pratt to thank for getting our real-life Peter Parker back on track and determined to work things out? Maybe!

Onward is in theaters on Friday, March 6th. Get tickets here.

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