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“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” may have officially wrapped production last year, but Tom Holland revealed that the film did some additional photography recently to add in “more humor” and beef up a “villain plotline.”

In a new interview with GQ for his campaign with fitness brand Vuori, Holland said he was in London to shoot additional scenes for his highly anticipated fourth Spidey movie.

“I can positively say that the stuff we’re doing, we don’t need,” he said. “The movie works and sings as it is. We’re just adding the icing on the cake in certain areas. We’re finding some ways to add a little bit more humor. We’re layering in a villain plotline in a new way and some really fun stuff.”

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is set to hit theaters July 31 via Marvel and Sony Pictures. Its trailer dropped last month and quickly made history, becoming the first in history to cross 1 billion views. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, “Spider-Man 4” catches up with Holland’s Peter Parker four years after the events of “No Way Home,” when the world has forgotten that he exists. But as a powerful new threat emerges, Spidey has no choice but to suit up once again and finds himself reuniting with Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk and Jon Bernthal’s Punisher. “Brand New Day” also stars Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman and Michael Mando.

But before “Spider-Man,” Holland has another blockbuster hitting theaters: Christopher Nolan’s epic “The Odyssey,” out July 17. Speaking with GQ, Holland called the film — which he stars in alongside Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and more — an “absolute masterpiece.”

“It’s unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before,” Holland said. “I think when I saw the movie, I found myself asking a question that I haven’t asked about a movie for a long time, which is, ‘How did you do that?'”

Holland especially admired Nolan’s commitment to practical effects. “There were certain sequences in the movie where I’m watching it and I’m just sort of thinking like, ‘How on earth has he done that? That has to be CG,'” he said. “And then after the movie asking him, ‘That was definitely CG, right?’ And he’s like, ‘No, no, no, that’s all in camera effects. Very planned, very prepared.’ So I think fans are going to be really, really blown away by the set pieces and sequences throughout the movie, because even as someone that was there on the day and was in the film, I was absolutely blown away by the scale, the scope, his ability to navigate such an intricate and heartfelt story in the middle of this insane kind of action movie.”

With two huge movies coming out in cinemas soon, Holland also reaffirmed his commitment to the theatrical experience, saying it’s something he wants to continue to emphasize in his career.

“I am a real advocate for theatrical and the cinema and the communal experience of sitting in a dark room and being entertained,” he said. “And I think there are some studios that do a better job of that than others, and I’m really keen to build relationships with those guys so that as a community, we can keep the cinemas going. I think that that is something for the next 10 years of my life that I will be very focused on.”

Read Holland’s full interview with GQ here.