Peter Parker leads a secretive double-life as a web slinging crime fighter in New York, but his best friend Ned Leeds is one of the few who completely understands what Peter is going through.
“He [Ned] understands Peter’s life and he thinks he’s the one who can help him deal with being a crimefighter and deal with girls.”
And right at the top of that list, is Ned, Peter’s best friend at Midtown High, who will be played by Jacob Batalon in the film, a relative newcomer to the industry.
Marvel and Sony didn’t waste much time following Captain America: Civil War before they began making themselves explicitly clear about the ways that they were going to try and make sure Spider-Man: Homecoming would be unlike any other Spider-Man film that fans had seen before.