‘I know where photos of Tom with his pants down are’

It was all part of Spider-Man: Far From Home where Hii — an Aussie actor with a long list of stage and screen credits including Crazy Rich Asians — played Brad Davis, Spidey’s love rival for MJ (Zendaya).

In one memorable scene, he discovers Peter Parker with a female agent, getting changed into a superhero costume and snaps a picture to “prove” to MJ that Parker is up to no good.

“That took a good part of the day just trying to work out the mechanics but it was a pretty funny scene,” Hii says.

“I was actually taking photos, because there was the potential they would need to show that shot in the movie later.

“I swear to God, someone at Sony has all these photos of Tom getting changed … I reckon they’d be worth a million dollars but will never see the light of day.

“If I could cash in on that I’d be sweet!”

Hii will be available to tell this and many more stories at Sydney’s Comic-Con on December 4 and 5 at the Sydney Showground, and again the following weekend in Melbourne.

But he’s hoping it will be a little different to his first Comic-Con experience.

“It was the San Diego Comic-Con, the OG one, and I was just there as a pundit,” he says.

“Spider-Man had just been released and I asked Marvel to get a pass because it’s a really hot ticket.

“The rest of the cast were like: ‘You’ve got to be in disguise because it’s not going to be a good time’.

“I was like: ‘I just play a supporting role in this movie, it’s not like I’m Tom Holland, this is going to be fine, it’ll be fun’.

“Worst mistake of my life!

“You couldn’t move a foot, it was that crazy. I was like: ‘What is this, I’m not in The Beatles or anything’!”

But he was also pleased to get that love as the character Brad, while not a villain, was certainly an “antagonist” to Spidey.

“Brad had MJ’s best interests at heart … he was trying to protect her from this dubious guy … Peter’s really questionable if you don’t know he’s Spider-Man,” he says.

Working with Holland and Zendaya was a great deal of fun.

“I was kind of between a great place and an awesome place,” he says.

“They were amazing co-stars to have, both so extremely hardworking and down to earth.

“I loved working with Tom because he cut his teeth on stage and I also did lot of work in theatre (Hii trained at NIDA) … so we really bonded over that.

“We really invested a lot into making that rivalry pop.”

While he’s not in the new Spider-Man: No Way Home movie, which is out in December, he is a huge fan of the character and is also looking forward to what happens next.

While his favourite Spidey villain was always Mysterio — lucky as that was played by Jake Gyllenhaal in Far From Home — his favourite movie villain was Willem Dafoe as the Green Goblin. And Dafoe will be back in No Way Home.

While he would love to get a call from Marvel boss Kevin Feige asking him to rejoin the MCU, he would prefer to be a villain than a hero.

“The villains have the most fun,” he says.

Meanwhile he’s excited about seeing “the most people in the one place for two years” at Comic-Con.

And he has a special selfie trick he learned from Zendaya.

“You can’t go out with her and spend more than 15 seconds before there is someone who asks to take photo with her,” he says.

“She’s such a giving person and I learned how to take the perfect selfie from the best … but I can’t reveal what it is, this is a trade secret, very heavily guarded stuff.”

Oz Comic-Con Sydney, December 4-5, Sydney Showground, ozcomiccon.com