Ok, we are a bit late to the party with this one that broke later Friday. Guess that’s what happens when you take a weekend off? But yes, Doc Ock is back in Spider-Man. If you follow the rumors then you’ve probably known Alfred Molina was returning as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: No Way Home for ages. However on Friday, Variety published an interview with Molina where he basically let the cat out the bag. I think at this point he’s finished filming, so what they gonna do, sack him?
Molina did not give any spoilers for the movie, at least not unless you include him as a spoiler. As per the quote below, there really was no need to keep secret any longer.
“When we were shooting it, we were all under orders not to talk about it, because it was supposed to be some great big secret. But, you know, it’s all over the internet. I actually described myself as the worst kept secret in Hollywood!”
What fans have been discussing all weekend is just how Doc Ock comes back. Molina says that he goes straight from his death scene in Spider-Man 2 towards No Way Home, and it looks like this will see Molina de-aged for the role.
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“It was wonderful,” he said. “It was very interesting going back after 17 years to play the same role, given that in the intervening years, I now have two chins, a wattle, crow’s feet and a slightly a slightly dodgy lower back.”
When the actor asked Jon Watts, the director of “No Way Home,” how the movie would bring Doc Ock back — since, as he pointed out, “I died” — Molina said the director told him, “In this universe, no one really dies.”
In their early conversations, Molina said, Watts told him that the movie will pick up Doc Ock’s story from “that moment” in the river, which in a franchise that include multiverses, time-travel and diverging timelines seems…plausible enough.
Molina’s concerns were more practical. He said that he asked Watts how they were going to deal with the fact that at 67, he’s aged since the 2004 film.
“He just looked at me, and said, ‘Did you see what we did to Bob Downey Jr. and Sam Jackson?’” Molina said with a laugh.
That’s that! Molina breaks silence first and we have confirmation that Doc Ock is back in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Now we just need to find out if Maguire, Garfield, Dafoe et al are all back as well?
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