Spiderman. Spider-Man, the franchise, owes a lot to Alfred Molina. Of the different villains who have appeared in the eight Spiderman. Spider-Man films made since 2002, Otto Octavius de Molina is generally considered the best, nailing the mix of sympathetic and sociopathic needed to really get under the skin of Peter Parker. This legacy is part of what is done unconfirmed reports indicate that Molina would repeat his Spider-Man 2 paper for the next Spider-Man: No Way Home very exciting. Not confirmed by Sony or Marvel, anyway; Molina is perfectly happy to confirm the shit of this news.
This is for Variety, who spoke with Molina this week about her role at the Oscars Promising young woman, and then found out it was a 100% game to talk too about slipping back into the tentacles of third Tom Holland Spiderman. Spider-Man film. “When we shot him, we had all orders not to talk about it, because it was supposed to be a big big secret,” Molina said, before pointing out that the news was on the Internet in early December. “In fact, I described myself as Hollywood’s worst-kept secret!”
Molina, as he usually does in interviews, was funny and carefree with the return performance, noting that: “It was very interesting to come back after 17 years to play the same role, as in the intervening years I now have two chins, one cookie, rooster feet and a slightly dodged back “. He also talked about rediscovering the secret of Doc Ock’s real great performance: “Then I remembered that it’s the tentacles that do all the work,” he joked, before remarking that his main physical contribution was a serious look. .
As for things in the plot, Molina remained quiet, presumably, so that Marvel anti-spoiler snipers who saw him as a hawk would not receive the call to make the shot. But he confirmed that, from Otto’s point of view, he is emerging just after entering the river Spider-Man 2. (When asked about the chronology of this, as far as his face is concerned, director Jon Watts apparently asked Molina, “Have you seen what we did for Bob Downey Jr. i Sam JacksonMeanwhile, when Molina asked about the dying man, Watts told him, “In this universe, no one really dies.”
One issue that Molina did not get into, however, was the There is no way home cameo rumors that still have the highest question marks swirling around him, namely: Will Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield too will it appear in the film, which is expected to bring Tom Holland’s Spidey a big spiral through the multiverse of marketing? Apparently, not even Molina is willing to face this particular firewall of study secrecy.
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