With shaggy hair, tired eyes, and a tortured persona, Tom Holland is hardly recognizable in the latest Apple TV+ series, "The Crowded Room." The limited thriller series premiered on the platform on June 9, and it stars Holland as David Sullivan, a man who is involved in a New York City shooting in 1979. After his arrest, interrogator Rya Goodwin (Amanda Seyfried) seeks to understand his involvement in the crime and slowly gets David to reveal details of his past that led him to the incident.

"The Crowded Room" is not for the faint of heart, and even took a toll on Holland, who recently revealed to Extra that the nature of the show wasn't easy to deal with. "It was a tough time, for sure," he explained. "I'm now taking a year off, and that is a result of how difficult this show was."

The show's time period and crime themes...