Marvel’s Kevin Feige reveals the three things they look for in the audition room.
Details surrounding the new Spider-Man are slowly hitting the Internet. Most recently, Marvel announced that Tom Holland will play Peter Parker. According to an interview with SlashFilm, Kevin Feige explains what the new Spider-Man movie will be about.
Kevin Feige pointed out why he wanted Spider-Man to be of high school age and it comes down to the fact Marvel wants to make Spider-Man different.
“Some of my favorite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he’s in high school for a lot of it. We want to explore that. That also makes him very, very different from any of our other characters in the MCU, which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters.”
In an interview with Collider, Feige elaborated on the idea of pitting Parker against the other superheroes and shared details surrounding the Marvel Spider-Man auditions.
Tom Holland read against Robert Downey, Jr. in a screen test, and reportedly held his own, which helped him cinch the part. “That was part of it,” Feige said. “When we’ll see that, I don’t know, but that was part of it.”
“We met with him four, five, or six times, and each time he had more and more interesting things to say,” Feige told Collider. “And at Marvel, it always comes down to ultimately, ‘We can make a movie with this person for two years, we could spend almost every day with this person for two years. Let’s go.’”
There you have it. If you want a lead role on a Marvel movie you have to hold your own, be interesting, and someone people can work with for several years to come.
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