Tobey Maguire on His New Costume: Maguire said there wasn’t much of a difference between the two Spider-Man costumes he dons in the film. “They’re pretty much the same. I mean what it feels like, the material’s similar. I think it’s probably a little sleeker and sexier, you know, kind of more like me in real life (laughing).”
Juggling Multiple Villains and Love Triangles: “Well, Spider-Man comic books had all these characters and successfully interwove their stories,” said Raimi. “A lot of what we’re doing is not introducing elements. Like if Harry Osborn does decide to seek vengeance upon Peter Parker for the death of his father, it’s certainly something that’s been set up in the first and second picture. This is more the conclusion of that. We have less work to do in that sense of not just introducing all of these new people.
One of the other villains we’ve tried to weave the story into Peter Parker’s personal life in as important of a way as we could, in a way that hopefully will make more of the first two pictures and give us insights into what we’ve seen before. I think probably only with the Brock character is there a complete new introduction of elements into Peter’s life but that’s ok, I think, because he can meet new people, too.”
Kirsten Dunst on How Mary Jane Changes in Spider-Man 3: “I never know what to say without giving it away. Basically she’s still an actress and you can see where it was heading towards in the last film with Peter. Emotionally, much more adult, more mature and there’s a lot more at stake because their relationship – they’re together. So emotionally it’s just, there’s a lot more at stake for all the characters and I think that we’ve gone to their relationship because they’re older, and just developed more and become more complicated. So emotionally, it’s a much heavier film.”
Tobey Maguire’s Take on His Character’s Development: “You know for me one of the most important [things is] there’s obviously a continuity of character that you have to keep up. Peter Parker is Peter Parker and so it’s important to not just try to like create new kind of things for Peter just for the sake of that. But I don’t necessarily want to see the same scenes played out and Peter going through the same kind of things that he’s gone through. So I think that Alvin and the other people who had input into Peter’s story and what Peter’s going through in this movie, did a fantastic job because as an actor for me it was like – there was nothing stale about it. I got to approach it and got to do like brand new, really fun, interesting things for myself. And in terms of what the specifics of that are, you know, you’ll see when you check out the movie.”
Maguire delves a little bit into the darker side of Peter Parker in the third Spider-Man outing. “Again, it was just because we’ve gone into some different areas that it was new and fun for me without losing touch with who Peter is. I really enjoyed the things that I got to do in the movie.”
Sam Raimi’s Casting Choices: Raimi says hair color and other physical attributes never figure into his decision on who to cast in any role. Specifically addressing the choice of Bryce Dallas Howard to play Gwen Stacy, Raimi said, “We just cast the best actress for the part. Tobey, our producer Laura Ziskin, myself, Grant Curtis - just trying to find the best actress for the role. Best actress – not someone that looked like Gwen Stacy of the comic books, although once the actress would have been cast, that would have been our immediate job. How could we make her look like the image the kids have grown up with? But nevertheless, casting we’re just trying to find the right person who could make it real, take the dialogue and bring it to life. See things – read it in the most unexpected way – bring some life to it. Make it interesting, exciting for me who was watching it, for Tobey who was acting in it, for Laura who was watching it with us. That’s really what the casting was about.
The moment came when Bryce read the scene, one particular scene, and it came to life for us suddenly. We all looked to each other and felt energized. It was a different thing than with Kirsten and Tobey because we were after a different relationship, actually, there. But here we were looking for a great actress and that’s what seemed to jump out at us.”
Is Spider-Man 3 the Completion of the Story?: Does the third film bring closure and are there more movies in the works? Kirsten Dunst answered, “Well, I mean, [this is] definitely a culmination but you would have had to have seen the first and the second. This definitely ties up some story lines. But if there more stories to tell, if there are things that are unresolved, then we will tell them. But I think that depends on if everyone staying, there’s a story to tell. If there’s a good story, I’ll be there.”
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