Kirsten Dunst revealed that she was never asked to reprise the role of superheroine Mary Jane Watson’s love interest in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
She reached new heights of stardom as Mary Jane in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, opposite Tobey Maguire as the title character.
In 2021, nearly two decades after first playing the character, Tobey returned to the role in the Marvel film Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The film achieved great success in fan service, uniting three different actors who have played Spider-Man on screen: Tobey, Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield.
But in a new interview with GQ hypeKirsten shared that she was never invited to join Tobey in the 2021 film and that she “would have done it” if she had been offered the job.
Kirsten Dunst revealed that she was never asked to reprise the role of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man: No Way Home; Pictured with Tobey Maguire in the 2002 Spider-Man film.
But in a new interview with GQ Hype, Kirsten shared that she was never invited to join Tobey in the 2021 film, and that she “would have done it” if she had been offered the job.
“It would be fun to say, okay, let’s take Tobey and I and do it in a weird, independent way, like a different kind of superhero movie,” he mused.
Kirsten recently went viral for a candid interview in which she confessed that she would be willing to do another superhero movie for financial reasons.
“If they asked her to return to the genre, she would accept ‘because they pay you a lot of money, I have two children and I support my mother,'” he said. Marie Claire.
In his new GQ profile, he was asked about the sound byte and laughingly commented, “That’s why people make those movies!”
His decision to make the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies was, however, “more innocent, I think,” as it came at a time before superhero movies took over Hollywood.
“Sam Raimi was like a cult director, so it felt like we were making an indie movie dressed up as a superhero,” the former child star recalls.
Kirsten made her film debut at the age of six, playing Mia Farrow’s daughter in the Woody Allen segment of the anthology film New York Stories.
She became a highly regarded child star at the age of 12 when she appeared in Neil Jordan’s Interview with a Vampire, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
She reached new heights of stardom as Mary Jane in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, opposite Tobey Maguire as the title character.
in which Tom Holland appears
In 2021, Tobey returned to the role in the Marvel film Spider-Man: No Way Home, in which he appears with Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland.
The film achieved great success in fan service, uniting three different actors who have played Spider-Man on screen: (from left) Tobey, Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield.
During her teens, she appeared in critically acclaimed films such as The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut.
Kirsten and Sofia became constant collaborators, reuniting for the 2006 film Marie-Antoinette and, more recently, 2017’s The Beguiled.
However, the role that made her a global name was Mary Jane in the Spider-Man trilogy, which began in 2002 and ran until 2007.
Nowadays, she is extremely selective about her projects, to the point that her upcoming film Civil War will be her first release since her Oscar-nominated role in Jane Campion’s gay western The Power Of The Dog three years ago.
‘It’s not difficult to get papers. I just don’t want to work on things because most of them aren’t very good. Let’s call a spade a spade here,’ she confessed candidly.
“I’ve been working since I was three years old. Most people who have worked that long are retired. I deserve to be picky,” the blonde Melancholy reasoned.