Filipino-American actor Jacob Batalon revealed that his family still couldn’t imagine his ‘Spiderman’ fame.
The 22-year-old actor plays the role of ‘Ned Leeds’ in the Spiderman movies top-billed by Tom Holland.
Jacob was born and raised in Pangasinan but he spent most of his life in Hawaii.
During the red carpet premiere of the new Marvel movie, some of Batalon’s family wore Barong Tagalog and Ternos and shouted ‘Proud Pinoy’.
Batalon remembered that he only sent a self-taped audition for a still unnamed Marvel project.
“I’ve been extremely lucky and fortunate to find myself in this position, and it is truly a blessing,” Batalon said.
The actor was a graduate of Damien Memorial School in New York in 2014. Batalon said that he saw the first Spider-man franchise when he was seven years old.
Batalon said that he immediately found a connection with Holland during the filming of Spider-man movie.
“Since the beginning, Tom and I have had this natural chemistry that sort of emulates the whole effect of friends becoming brothers, and to me he really is my brother,” he said.
