Marisa Tomei on Spider-Man: No Way Home, Aunt May, and Director Jon Watts

With director Jon Watts’ Spider-Man: No Way Home getting ready to break pandemic box office records when it opens in theaters December 17th, I recently got to speak with Marisa Tomei about playing May Parker in the upcoming Sony/Marvel sequel. During the interview, she talked about why she loves working with Jon Watts, the way he makes the cast feel like they’re making an independent film, how much she was told about May’s arc when she landed the role, what people would be surprised to learn about the making of a Spider-Man movie, how much the scripts change during production, and more. As most of you know, Spider-Man: No Way Home begins after the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home where J. Jonah Jameson (J. K. Simmons) has revealed Spider-Man’s identity to the whole world after being convinced by Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) that the Web Crawler is a villain. As you’ve seen in the trailer, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) goes to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to see if he can erase Spider-Man’s r