we have plans for you Peter Parker you
wanted to be the hero Nina and now you
gotta pay the price we have the power
now we can change the world let's go
catch a spider I was really excited to
get back to it because we had a
foundation that was really solid and the
journey of Peter was incredibly each
step led to the next and that's simple
filmmaking 101 of course and in these
movies sometimes that doesn't get
honored but we were lucky in this
respect and it's and it's a moment for
spider-man and for Peter well for
spider-man where he is owning who he is
he is owning the gifts that he has been
given and I think it's contagious
the first time I meet spider-man he's
you know flying through the air it was
really about embracing that feeling of
being spider the liberating thing that
we all loved in some very basic
intuitive primal way the wish
fulfillment of it you know that that
feeling of the wind and your family and
swinging in like absolute total freedom
and joy and taken to your webs and find
the city and being uh funny and and
witty and and messing around with people
that are that are bullies it's just
that's the basic spirit that was we
tried to embrace right out of the gate
my five-year-old daughter who is a
fanatic when it comes to spider-man
she's actually having a spider-man
birthday with the jumper where she's
jumping it and I caught a tail I said
hey daddy's gonna be in spider-man for
what what could you do inspired of it
and I tell I'm playing a villain in the
rest is history we wanted to embrace the
bombastic sort of simple bigness of the
spider-man villains that happened in the
comics you know the playful part of that
and what's great about Jamie is that he
can navigate this space between and
there was a real there was a real
evolution between this kind of goofy a
character that that has this you know
has this comb-over when he's got a
little bit silly but there's a pathos to
him there's moments where he feels
something real underneath that and that
is the element of carrots that evolves
the most throughout the film all right
you're right Olivia
Costin gives it away that's a pretty
important match how do you know when
it's written on your bed Sheldon I told
my sister I want to be the first black
man with a comb-over
in a movie and so we accomplished that
because I want to do the minute to see
him I want you to say wow here's a
character and so um you always want the
butterfly effect meaning like the
caterpillar is max
who's this nerd
pushed to the back of the room type
person who meets spider-man and becomes
a fanatic but then he butterflies into
electro so as an actor that's what you
always want to be able to flex two
different muscles in my family you guys
this is my buddy Matt and I told you
about
max go on shoot some max you're me
Cassius just dream you and me talking
all day right there right there just be
careful great is the electricity I just
I just wanted him to see me this
preparation for this died when I was a
kid when I when when I was a
three-year-old my first spider-man
costume really climbing doorframes and
and and injuring myself and it is that
that childish imagination that you do
need in order to fill that very big
green screen behind you or that very big
Time Square sequence but I think the
work is kind of done for you when you
put on the suit because as soon as you
put on the suit and you see people
response to you even hardened American
film crew members that are kind of you
know the Teamsters or whatever in New
York kind of can't suppress a smile when
they see the red and blue and the big
eyes and you know it's it makes you
giggle and it wakes up that
three-year-old part of yourself I've
done a fair amount of green screen work
in movies that were not of the kind of
spider-man everything is digitally
painted in scale and so I've looked at
ping-pong balls with an X tape to them
and imagined a person to be there before
but yeah this is this requires a lot of
childhood imagination to come up and
that that is a great challenge you do
you definitely do expand after acting in
a world that is not existent around you
but it's like a black box theater you
know just imagining your environment
isn't actually that tricky it's when
you're imagining a blue electric man
that it gets a little bit more
challenging
that was Mark's vision and what the CGI
guys had and I was just in front of the
green screen give him as many looks and
as many you know voices and many things
is
as I could and then they would you know
craft it and I thought it's brilliant
how you how you see the CGI folk how
they would come on the set and sort of
point you in the right direction so it
make their you made their life easier
you know so it's a great matrimony of
Technology in enthusiasm it's been 10
years what have you been up to I do some
web design sometimes the world that you
create is so hyper real that it just
allows you to believe what's happening
is happening in a really easy way you
know and it's it's beyond anything I
could imagine like I have an office in
the movie then when I was going in I
remember going in the day I'm gonna go
this is my scene in my office and I
thought it would be a small office and I
get there and it's like this glass and
steel structure that's the size of a
football field and it just blew my mind
you know so on those days it's extremely
helpful and you know it's a it's a
machine in terms of the lights and the
cameras and all that but it's a smooth
operating machine and you again you have
time to do it so a lot of times on a
small film it's not as well
choreographed and also you're fighting
and fighting fighting to get the shots
and to make the day and in this it's you
know you get to take your time you have
to explore things and then if you don't
finish what you're supposed to
accomplish on that day just do it you
just do it the next day you ever figure
out why your parents bail
my dad left a briefcase that's all I got
briefcase for the junk whatever I don't
know I tried think about it
how's that working out for you perfectly
iceworm just on the wrist buddy
having worked with Andrew and Emma there
were just certain strengths and their
characters and with them as actors that
I wanted to focus on I mean Andrew he
has this trickster spirit that he's
embraced and and I thought I could
exploit that a little bit more this time
around accent no Emma so funny and their
chemistry was so magical in the first
movie and it represents the thing that
is most challenging for Peter Parker and
what he what causes the most problems
for him as spider-man and he thinks he
can keep those lives separate but of
course they collide eventually I'm
coming with you one is two dangers oh
sorry I love you don't hate me
that's the biggest draw for Mark to the
movie I mean beyond all of the all of
the amazing action hoopla that comes
with a movie like spider-man I think
mark really cares about the love story
and really cares about the personal
personal relationships of Peter so if
you don't care about what's happening to
Peter if you don't care about him as a
character um pretty deeply then none of
the action is gonna matter this is the
maintenance closet this is the most
cliched hiding place you could have
chosen this is this is mrs. Lippett as
honey please take us to the Bahamas as
hiding places
oh just kiss me what how'd you like it
what the director so chill he he almost
makes you forget you're making a
spider-man movie you know you feel like
you're making a movie with friends but
then all of a sudden you look up and
you're doing a scene with spider-man so
it's just like it's it was so cool and
it was so fun and I'm so happy that I
got the opportunity it's a playground
that dabbles in the surreal and it's
such an interesting thing to to mess
around with and dream about and walk
through and that's really satisfying and
then there's also the there is you're
getting to work with people of
extraordinary talent and at a level
which is I never thought I'd kits it I'm
you know you show up to work in there
Sally Field and Jamie Foxx and you're
like what what's going on how did this
happen and and they can make anything
work and it's really beautiful when you
have a team at that it's working on that
scale there's something wonderfully
satisfying about finishing the job
I said you're having every version of a
filmmaking experience within one movie
you have six months and one day you're
you're shooting one of those love scenes
that are you know it's just a small
scene that could be in a movie of any
budget and the next day you're swinging
from wires on a green screen so you're
having kind of the the the entire
catalog of filmmaking experience that I
don't think there's anything you don't
get to do on a spider
you