Tom Holland Stuns Fans With ADHD Reveal During Lego Film Promo

Tom Holland just did brand work for LEGO and somehow made it personal. While hyping the company’s quick-hit short film, he ended up talking about ADHD, creativity, and the joy (and danger) of colorful plastic bricks under a bare foot.

The short: what it is and who pops up

• Title: Never Stop Playing, from LEGO
• Length: about two minutes
• Style: a live-action/animation mash-up
• Holland plays a grab bag of characters, from a space marine to an actual LEGO minifig
• Cameos: his brothers Harry and Sam show up as reporters
• Theme: stay playful, because that kind of tinkering sparks creativity

Why he signed on: the ADHD link

Talking to IGN, Holland said the project’s message hit home because it lines up with how he manages his own brain. He was candid about having ADHD and dyslexia and how the blank-canvas part of acting can be weirdly intimidating, especially when he is building a character from scratch. For him, hands-on play is not just fun, it is a tool.

"I have ADHD and I’m dyslexic... Any way that you can, as a young person or as an adult, interact with something that forces you to be creative and forces you to think outside the box... just promotes healthy creativity. And I think that the more we do that sort of stuff, the better."

That is the pull-quote version. The gist: structured play, whether you follow the instruction booklet or go rogue, helps get past the paralysis of starting from nothing. Inside baseball, sure, but it tracks if you have ever stared at a script or a blank page and felt your brain stall.

LEGO is basically a Holland family sport

He talked about growing up with brick battles at home, the kind of sibling competitions that turn into elaborate set pieces. At one point, he says he would stage LEGO dinosaurs as a kind of chore-avoidance strategy. Extremely on brand. He also remembered building a LEGO Death Star with Jacob Batalon during the early Spider-Man: Homecoming days, which is a very wholesome way to kill time between superhero fittings.

His brothers backed up the family angle, saying LEGO sets and even some video games pulled everyone into the same room and off their individual screens. And yes, Holland added the universal PSA: if you do not pick up LEGO, your parents’ feet will find them. Painfully.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is revving up again

Separately, Holland recently called shooting the next Spidey movie "exciting and exhilarating," highlighting a wild day in Glasgow where he was on top of a tank in front of thousands of fans. He referred to the film as Spider-Man: Brand New Day — a title that nods to a well-known comics era, for those keeping score — with Destin Daniel Cretton directing. It is currently dated for July 31, 2026. Make of the title what you will until the studio stamps it in stone.