Back in August new sites like The Wrap and Vulture reported that Zendaya would be playing the love interest of Tom Hollands Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming film. They were also reporting that the actress was playing long time love interest Mary Jane Watson which actually annoyed many comic fans. Well Zendaya spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about her role in the film and addressed those rumors about her character in the film.
"People are going to react over anything. But nothing [about my role] is fact. It’s like, you guys are just making s#^t up at this point and then reacting to it. Whenever we were on set, one of us gets some random character name [on the call sheet]. [Bloggers were] like, 'Oh they must be so and so.' And we just crack up about it, because it’s like, 'Whatever you want to think. You’ll find out.' It’s funny to watch the guessing game."
In examining her statement, it appears that Watts applied a little subterfuge to the call sheet, listing different characters each day just in cast the information ever leaked. So could rumors that Zendaya is playing MJW be attributed to the fact that she was apparently listed as a different character on each daily call sheet?
Zendaya then added, "My character is not romantic. My character is like very dry, awkward, intellectual and because she’s so smart, she just feels like she doesn’t need to talk to people, like 'My brain is so far ahead of you that you’re just not really on my level.' So she comes off very weird. But to me, she is very cool because she’s deep. She’s always thinking about something, always reading."
Spider-Man: Homecoming arrives in theaters July 7, 2017.