Spider Man, the franchise, owes a lot to Alfred Molina. Of the various villains that have turned up in the 8 Spider Man Movies made since 2002, Molina’s Otto Octavius is generally regarded as the best, pursuing the blend of sympathetic and sociopathic necessary to really get under the skin of Peter Parker. That legacy is part of what was created the unconfirmed reports that Molina would take his again Spider-Man 2 role for the coming Spider-Man: No Way Home so exciting. Not confirmed by Sony or Marvel in any case; Molina is very happy to confirm the shit of this news.
That is per Variety, who spoke to Molina this week about his role in the Oscar nominee Promising young woman, and then learned he was 100 percent in the game to also talk about sliding back into the tentacles for the third Tom Holland Spider Man movie. “When we shot the film, we were all under orders not to talk about it because it had to be a big secret,” said Molina, before noting that the news was all over the Internet in early December. “I actually described myself as the worst kept secret in Hollywood!”
Molina, as he usually is in interviews, was both funny and self-effacing about the return performance, noting, “It was really interesting to go back after 17 years to play the same role as I have two chins, a wickerwork, crow’s feet and a somewhat seedy lower back. He also spoke of rediscovering the secret to Doc Ock’s truly amazing acting: “I remembered then that it’s the tentacles that do all the work,” he joked, before noting that his main physical contribution was some serious lightning. used to be.
Plot-wise, Molina mostly kept quiet – presumably so that the Marvel anti-spoiler snipers who looked at him as a hawk wouldn’t get the call to take the picture. But he did confirm that, from Otto’s point of view, he reappears after entering the river Spider-Man 2(When asked about the timeline, re: his face, director Jon Watts apparently asked Molina, “Did you see what we did to Bob Downey Jr. and Sam Jackson? Meanwhile, when Molina asked about the whole dying thing, Watts said, “In this universe, no one really dies.”
One topic that Molina did not address, however, was the No way home cameo rumors that still have the toughest question marks, still swirling around, namely: Will Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield also turn up in the movie, which is expected to send Tom Holland’s Spidey far and wide through The Multiverse Of Marketing? Even Molina is apparently unwilling to brave that particular studio secret firewall.
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