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I’m 100% positive that she has what it takes to make a memorable performance as the character. She won the Oscar for her work in a comedy ( My Cousin Vinny) and her next two nominations were for dramas ( In the Bedroom and The Wrestler). However, having a 50-year-old aunt seem way more plausible.īesides that, Tomei is an Academy Award-winning actress who has range. The age gap between her and Peter’s parents in the comics was too big for my liking. I always had a problem with a teenage Peter Parker having an aunt who was in her 70s, if not her 80s. And in a new interview, the Oscar-winning actress, 52, was refreshingly candid about her decision to play the characterdespite the fact that Aunt May was introduced in the 1960s as Peter Parker. Tomei is a rather spry and fit 50-year-old who could pass for being in her 30s. Even Field, who was 65 when she appear in the last reboot, was close enough for the fans to stay quiet. Harris, who was 74 when she took the role fit right in. Even modern comic book revamps of the character cast her in the feisty grandma role. In terms of physical likeness, the first big. Tomei is a beautiful, vivacious woman who looks ten years younger than her actual age of 52, so a far-cry from the comic book image of the elderly May Parker. What is causing a bit of a brouhaha is that Aunt May is portrayed in the comics as a frail, weak octogenarian who ran the risk of getting a heart attack if the wind blew on her too hard. When Tomei was first cast as the aunt-by-marriage of Tom Holland's Peter Parker, some fans were shocked and skeptical about her casting.
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She follows Rosemary Harris and Sally Field in the role. Variety is claiming sources that say that Marisa Tomei has been cast as Aunt May in the joint Sony/Marvel reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. Now Marisa Tomei, who plays the same role in Marvel Cinematic Universe and Sonys Spider-Man starring Tom Holland, has echoed the emotion, albeit for different reasons. It’s not often you hear people complaining that a three-time Oscar nominee, one-time winner has been cast in a role, and its even rarer that an actress is criticized for being too young for a part, but that is what’s happening here. Actress Sally Field, who had played Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man films starring Andrew Garfield had said she regretted doing so.