The MCU’s most up-to-date Spider-Man star set the file straight after he obtained backlash for seemingly calling his Disney+ mission “woke.”
Marvel Studios just lately returned to the world of the web-slinger with the discharge of Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man on Disney. Full with a number of different main heroes heroes hidden by means of the present, this sequence gave viewers a brand new take a look at Spidey’s origins in a universe already full of different MCU-adjacent heroes.
Whereas the present was led by Hudson Thames, who beforehand voiced Peter Parker in What If…?, the actor discovered himself caught in some wild controversy in the course of the present’s run on Disney+.
Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man star Hudson Thames addressed feedback he made which led followers to consider he was complaining concerning the present being “woke.” These unique feedback got here in an interview with Collider launched in late January.
Reflecting on that interview with Juju Inexperienced (aka Straw Hat Goofy), Thames felt a part of his feedback have been “cherry-picked and used primarily with no context” to fire up hassle with followers:
“So, clearly, one thing that I stated was cherry-picked and used primarily with no context simply to sort of fire up some drama. We have been speaking about that little time frame earlier than the present got here out, and I used to be noticing a number of feedback on-line that I used to be getting, that was both individuals being nervous or expressing concern that the present was utilizing subjects of variety and equality in an inauthentic or disingenuous approach.”
These feedback made him wish to “defend [his] how slightly bit,” though he admitted that he made a “poor selection of phrases.” The Spidey star made it clear that “fairness and variety was simply already baked into the story” written by Jeff Trammell, which is what made him wish to be part of within the first place:
“It made me defensive, like I wished to sort of defend our present slightly bit. It was such a poor selection of phrases. My level was that our present doesn’t have to do this, it doesn’t have to tug any tips. Jeff [Trammell] did such a superb job, for my part, of writing what he knew. Equality and variety was simply already baked into the story he wrote, and nothing felt compelled, I suppose, so I used to be actually simply attempting to go with the grace during which that every one performs out within the present, and mockingly, it’s what attracted me to the present a lot within the first place.”
This comes after Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man made a number of notable adjustments to supporting characters from the web-slinger’s lore. A few of these adjustments embody a Black Norman and Harry Osborn together with a gender-swapped and race-swapped model of Dr. Connors.
Whereas these adjustments have been controversial to sure sects of the fandom, Thames’ preliminary feedback solely added to the dialogue for viewers. Listening to his clarification might assist calm issues down, notably with Season 2 already transferring onto improvement forward of a possible 2026 launch.
Watch the total interview with Strawhat Goofy beneath:
