Spider-Man's Tom Holland's awkward run-in with Madonna

If you're meeting a legendary pop star on a whim, you'd best hope you can keep it cool.

Tom Holland has opened up about the first time he met Madonna — and it didn't go as smoothly as he hoped.

In a recent interview on the Graham Norton Show, the Spider-Man star said meeting the pop star was "one of his most embarrassing experiences".

At the Oscars after-party earlier this year, Holland said he was introduced to the singer by a friend, reports News.com.au.

"An old friend of mine who's a manager comes up to me and is like, 'Tom! Tom! Do you know Madonna?' And I'm like, 'Funny enough, no.' So, he drags me across this nightclub and introduces me to Madonna."

He said his friend knew he was struggling to keep it cool, so he tried to help him out.

"(My friend) can see me panicking and goes, 'Madonna, Tom is an incredible dancer.' She goes, 'Really? That's something I'd love to see — show me!

"So, I take her hand and drag her out onto the dance floor and as soon as I took her I realised it was a mistake."

To be fair, meeting Madge would be a pretty intimidating experience. Photo / AP

Uh oh.

"I start dancing with her and — there's not much arms involved, I'm just doing a little twostep to try to warm myself up — and she's so unimpressed...I just bailed and left. I just leave Madonna on the dance floor."

Who does that? Who leaves MADONNA high and dry on the dance floor?

We can all learn a valuable lesson here. If you're trying to impress the queen of pop, don't try and bull your way through it.

For what it's worth, Holland actually is an incredible dancer. Before his rise in Hollywood, he was a child dancer who played the lead in Billy Elliot the Musical at age 12, from 2008 to 2010.

In an interview with People Magazine last year, he said he had his "rough patches" because of his talent.

"There was times when I was bullied about dancing and stuff," he says. "But you couldn't hit me hard enough to stop me from doing it."