- Should we do it, guys?
Should we talk about little Spider-Man stuff?
- Let's talk about some Spider-Man action.
- It is a rare treat to have one Spider-Man
on a couch here at Comic-Con, I've got two.
I am blessed here today, welcome guys.
- Welcome, glad to be here. (laughing)
- You can welcome me too, if you want.
- We're all visitors to Comic-Con.
(laughing) Welcome, Josh.
- Thank you, thank you, Jake.
Congratulations though, this movies looks amazing, truly.
It looks innovative, in terms of the animation.
You've got an amazing pedigree of folks behind the camera
writers, producers, and you get to play an icon.
Which is a that's, I mean you check all the boxes, right?
- (laughing) This is a checks all the boxes job.
- So who's more surprised to be playing
an iconic hero like Spider-Man?
Was this ever a conceivable notion in either of your brains?
- I said it was gonna happen in my journal two years ago.
- Is that true? - Yep, it is.
- So what did you write, you wrote.
- I wrote, I am Spider-Man.
And then I wrote, I am Miles Morales
but really big, front and then back, on the page.
One of a lot of things, but the first thing to come true.
- Amazing, so what was behind that, at the time?
What was like, you just were fascinated
by the character, you loved the character?
- Well I just wanted I've always wanted to play a superhero.
I wanted, I still want to be in
an action movie and a romance film.
Romance, action, and a superhero film are my three
gotta-do's and when I started that journal
I was working on the movie, Dope,
and my co-star gave it to me.
And then I started writing down what I wanted.
So two years later, I got this, and here we are.
- What was it, I mean, this is also a responsibility
this is a character we've been talking about
a lot in recent years,
about when were we gonna see Miles Morales as Spider-Man,
even when the the latest live action incarnation,
or like should it be, Miles?
It decided to go with Peter, for now.
- They did. (laughing)
- Is there a responsibility, in kind of bringing this
to the big screen for the first time, that you feel?
- I mean, ultimately I'm just thankful
to be a part of amazing project.
The, it looks like a real movie, to me.
It looks live, it's not live action,
but it looks like live action, to me from this trailer.
And from what I've seen.
And I'm putting in the emotion
that I would be putting in if I was in front of the camera.
- [Josh] Yeah.
- And I'm working with cool guys like Jake.
And we have great directors and writers,
and the animators are bringing
a whole different level quality to the film.
So it's a great a project, and I'm thankful.
That's how I'm gonna answer that.
- Cool, cool, every.
- I like those answers. (laughing)
Sorry to jump in on you a little bit, but.
Keep going, man, you're in a good zone.
- For you, you're joining an elite group
that have played this character
this incarnation of the character.
I mean, surreal just when this came around?
- Yeah, you know it actually
it kind of came up in a sneaky way, where Phil wrote,
Phil Lord wrote me an email saying
I'm writing something, with you in mind.
It's an animated thing,
but you'd have to audition for it, and blah blah blah.
So I was kind of in, from the Phil Lord email.
And then slowly it was, I believe the next one was
this is the introduction to Miles Morales'
character and blah blah blah.
And we'd like you to play an older Peter Parker,
and kind of a mentor, and so the whole the.
- You're like, how old, wait a second.
(laughing)
- We'd love you to play a 700 hundred year old.
(laughing)
All right, I get, I get the joke, oh man, I get it.
It's a mute Peter Parker in an animated film.
All right, I get it fellas.
- Need a couple grunts, and wheezes.
- Just grunt and wheeze.
You're not gonna be paid, you pay like a 1000 bucks.
Okay, I get it, makes sense.
But it was really an honor.
And honestly for this one, you know,
everything Shameik said was true and I agree with,
but the writing's really good.
And what's been really fun for this one is,
I always imagine voice-over jobs being like
the quote, unquote easiest job in Hollywood.
Where you show up in a Hawaiian shirt and you know,
Cargo shorts, you like say two words
and you get paid billions.
But that hasn't been the case, on this one.
- You dress up in a Tuxedo.
(laughing)
Just formal wear and no money.
- No, but what it really is, is we sit in that booth
and we're really working, and we're really getting to act.
And we get to do our scenes together sometimes.
And you get to do full scenes, and open it up.
And the writers of this really care.
And we have you know, four, or three great directors
and Phil and Chris are producing, but they're really in it.
So when you get there, there's a lot of thought behind Peter
so it's not as if I need to do a bunch of research.
I just need to honor what they're doing,
and see it how they see it.
Because I trust their view on it, more than I trust my own.
- So what's, I mean one would argue,
you know if you read the comics you know the answer to this
but like, what's the unexplored
part of the Spider-Man universe at this point?
'Cause we've seen a lot of featured films
in the last 15, 20 years.
So what is the story that this is telling, you think?
What is new about this, that makes this special,
beyond seeing a bunch of cool guys playing Spider-Man?
- Well that's, that whole concept in itself,
you gotta know that Sony, and Chris and Phil and everybody
know how many movies they made for Spider-Man.
(laughing) You know what I'm saying?
So they know that they got to bring something different.
- And also Miles is different.
This is Miles', this is Miles' movie, you know?
Peter Parker who's Spider-Man,
is he meets Miles and they need each other
to kind of get out of their situation.
But this is Miles' journey.
And Miles' character is what sparks
Peter to remember a lot, and feel a lot.
But it's what makes this one different, I think, is Miles.
- Boom.
(laughing) - Do all the Spider-Men,
women get together at a certain point?
Are you ever all together, at one Spider confab?
Have you all met, in one? - Spoiler.
- Okay. (laughing)
- We've never done it in the booth together.
- Okay, you haven't been with
Nicolas Cage doing his Spider-Man,
which is crazy that he's in a Spider-Man movie, amazing.
Okay. (laughing)
Here's where I monologue
about the movie that may or may not be.
(laughing)
- This was my warning to you at the hallway earlier.
- I still can't say that much.
(laughing)
Have you met Tom Holland?
I'm just curious.
Have you ever met him?
Would you want to meet him, and compare notes?
- I met yeah, yeah I've met.
- I think I just hit something, wait.
Did I hit something?
- No, no, no nothing, my bad.
(laughing)
No, no, Tom, he seems like a nice guy.
Yeah, I've met him.
Yeah, Tom is a nice guy.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- What, I don't know him, personally.
But we went to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
And, not with him, I saw him there.
- And was this post, you being involved in this film?
- Yeah.
- Did you talk a little bit about?
- I'm sure he knows and like I know.
- There's an unspoken Spider-Man code among men.
- Yeah, we got the Spider Senses.
(spitting) (laughing)
You know, you're like me. (laughing)
- If you said that to him, it would be so cool.
You're like me, but different.
(laughing)
- Yeah, what would the secret Spider-Man handshake be?
What would be the, what's the entrance into the club?
Is there a secret code word?
- No. (laughing)
I think we would just start swinging.
You know? (laughing)
(swooshing)
Who's the better Spider-Man?
Let's fall off the building and see who.
- See who lives. (laughing)
- Do you have a favorite Spider-Man villain?
There's so many great ones in the pantheon.
What's the one that sticks out for you?
- I always liked, liked you know, The Goblin
but the second Goblin, the one that Harry was in.
- [Josh] Wait, was that Hobgoblin?
- Hobgoblin, was that the one, yeah.
I always liked 'cause that was Peter's best friend.
- [Josh] Right.
- You know, but as far as villains in this movie,
I'm not really sure, of all the villains that are in it.
- I know that I read with somebody,
who we're not revealing their name, but I like that.
- [Josh] That's helpful, thanks.
- I like that take on the villain a lot.
So when you see it, looking back at this
you'll be like, now I hear what he's saying.
And I agree with him. (laughing)
- Doesn't help me at all, literally, just.
- I told you how I won't even say gender, was fantastic.
(laughing)
Let me tell you this, the villain they played,
who I can't tell you either
is also fantastic. (laughing)
- What a pair of jerks I got here.
(laughing)
But this, I think this movie will mean a lot to people,
just in terms of entertainment,
but also, bringing Miles to the screen.
Is that the, like I mean, do you feel like,
it's already connecting with people,
like it means a lot to a lot of people,
that we're getting to see Miles on the big screen.
Do you get that sense, are you interacting with fans already
seeing it on social media, what this means?
- I've gotten some love for, for Spider-Man.
I think it's more like my,
like the type of person I am though,
I'm real like underground with it.
Like I don't really go out a whole lot, and I don't.
Anyway, I've gotten compliments from like people
that really know me and care about me.
Like, yo you're Miles Morales, holy.
You know what I'm saying, it's like that.
- So when you, you were talking before about kind of almost
approaching it like a live action film.
So like, what was your way into the character?
Was there, like a key for you
in kind of finding the voice and attitude of Miles?
- I was really worried originally about me sounding too
'cause Miles, in this is suppose to be like,
13 or something, like a little kid.
And, I was like, I know I might have like a light voice
but I don't know if I sound 13, so I was,
trying to talk like this a little bit at first.
And then, you know, Chris and Phil, and everybody
they was like, no Shameik, we like when you do you.
So, give the, be real as possible, and you know
you wouldn't be here if we didn't like your voice.
So I was like, okay well, do that with this,
you know and since then like if I'm in front of a camera
and I'm like screaming for people,
Peter, Peter, Peter.
You know, that's what I'm doing in the booth.
- Honestly, almost gave me a heart attack.
(laughing) - I know seriously me too.
- I was lulled into your answer,
I was in a really nice zone.
I was waiting for Josh to ask the next one
I'm like nothing's gonna pull me into this one,
he's gonna finish.
- You got two borderline middle-aged men here.
(laughing)
- You can't do that stuff.
- Pay some respect, come on.
- You want to see us die?
Watching Josh and I die would be so gross.
We would not die in like a sexy, graceful way.
The sound, you would see what it looks like.
- Is that how you would die?
- A lot of this and like wheezing.
- You would Dinosaur arms it.
I would get loud.
Oh no, here comes my death.
- I would grab Jake and we would just die together.
- Ugly cry, I haven't accomplished anything.
- Don't worry, I would.
No, there's a bad joke to be made.
- How much of the film have you guys seen, at this point?
I imagine this is the kind of thing
they're gonna be working on til the end.
- I saw the thing we're gonna show tonight.
So I've seen about six minutes of a trailer.
- I haven't seen that.
- Oh, you didn't? - Dammit.
- But we don't see very much.
And for me I don't get any scripts before the things.
So when we go to record,
I'm just getting the scripts in front of me.
So a lot of these we're, you know,
we're acting like spies who have the answer,
but we really don't,
at least I don't have a lot of the answers.
- That's a plausible deniability.
- Yeah, that's right, but what's genuinely nice about it is,
as an actor, when you're in the booth
and you don't have to try to think about the whole story.
You just focus on the scene.
So, this scene has straight-up comedy.
But it's got a lot of heart, it's got action.
So if I'm in a dramatic, you know scene that's got heart,
well now I just feel like I'm in a really dramatic movie.
And then when we turn the page, and it's just bits,
I'm like great, let's loosen it up.
(chuckles)
- Congratulations and enjoy Comic-Con, guys.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,
Christmas, 2018, it's lit.
(laughing) - Break the mic.