“Spider-Man: Homecoming” hit theaters this weekend, and the film absolutely dominated the box office. The film was full of some fun surprises, most of which went down in the third act of the movie, and one twist that took place near the end has a lot of people talking.
“Homecoming” introduced us to Zendaya’s character, which we are told is named Michelle, but near the end of the film she says, “my friends call me MJ.” The reveal has confused people, but Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige recently spoke to IGN, and he set the record straight by confirmed Zendaya is still a new character, now Mary-Jane Watson.
“She’s not Mary-Jane Watson. Is she going to date Peter? Are they going to fall in love? She seems to be intrigued with him. There’s a nice chemistry there. Who knows what will happen in the future films?”
Furthermore, Feige also noted that they didn’t intend for the reveal to be such a big deal.
“Well, we never even looked at it as a big reveal necessarily but more of just a fun homage to his past adventures and his past love. She’s not Mary Jane Watson. She never was Mary Jane Watson. She was always this new high school character, Michelle, who we know there’s an “M” in Michelle and an “M” in Mary. [laughs] So we’re so clever and we thought, “Wouldn’t it be neat if her initials were MJ?” And then I think it leaked that she would be playing MJ and then it became a whole headache for Zendaya to have to navigate. It was never a big, “Oh my God, it’s a big reveal!” There are big reveals in the movie. That’s not one of them.”
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