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According to Spider-Man: Homecoming co-screenwriter John Francis Daley, Michelle was intended as a reinvention of Mary Jane Watson. [8] While her nickname reveal was an homage to the supporting character within the comic books and other Spider-Man media, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed she is an original Marvel Cinematic Universe character. [9]
Mary Jane Watson was first introduced into Spider-Man comics story-lines in The Amazing Spider-Man #42 in 1966, despite being mentioned earlier in the comics. [1] She was conceived as competition to Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man's primary love interest, and is characterized as a free-spirited, outgoing personality as opposed to Gwen's more serious, academic nature.
Spider-Man (2002) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. ... Italian dubbing: Mary Jane Watson (uncredited)
Jul 23, 2019 · Mary Jane’s first appearance was way back in 1965 in issue #25 of The Amazing Spider-Man. She only had a brief cameo, but it was enough to help her develop into one of the biggest characters in the entire Spider-Man franchise. Mary Jane Watson has been played by many different actresses over the years.
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Mary Jane "MJ" Watson is the deuteragonist of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy.
She is the childhood love interest, later girlfriend, of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, the ex-girlfriend of Flash Thompson and later Harry Osborn, and the ex-fiancée of John Jameson.
Mary Jane Watson was born to Phillip Watson and Madeline Watson. As she grew up, she would share an abusive relationship with her father. When she was six, she moved into Queens, New York City, New York in the house next to Peter Parker's. When Parker first saw her, she pointed out to his aunt May if she was an angel, and instantly fell in love with her. Mary Jane was unaware of this, but she became neighbors and close friends with Peter.
Acting TalentAt a young age, MJ always desired acting, seeking to act professionally. During her school years, she often acted in school plays, Peter admitted he "cried like a baby" when Mary Jane played Cinderella, though Mary Jane admitted it was in the first grade. When she reached her teenage years, she fell into a relationship with Flash Thompson. However, MJ would gradually grow unsupportive of Flash because he would always bully Peter Parker, despite her strongly telling him not to.
Mary Jane Watson is a kind, funny, loyal, loving, sweet, cheerful, passionate, and energetic young girl. She ran with the stereotypical popular crowd in school, being surrounded by people who had enticing physical features and great skills in ways of preforming arts or sports. Mary Jane is somewhat naive, but always knows what's going on. While MJ's closest friends and boyfriend were rude, snobbish, arrogant, vain and uncaring, she did not judge anyone based on looks or skills but rather by personality, Unlike her ex-boyfriend, Flash. She never bullied or judged Peter Parker, despite him being in the unpopular crowd.
Mary Jane herself was beautiful and drew attention from all the boys but never let it go to her head. Instead, she used her features merely as an advantage for acting and modelling and worked to develop independence and smarts. Mary Jane sadly had faults that only brought herself down, such as insecurity and an urge to impress people she deemed important, both of which most likely came from her abusive, dirty father.
Mary Jane was also friendly towards Peter Parker despite him being an unpopular nerd. MJ had no one treat her with respect for anything other than her looks before she and Peter developed a stronger friendship and might not have noticed until after high school graduation. She even flirted with him and called him "Tiger".
It is quite possibly because of this, Mary Jane became so smitten by Spider-Man so quickly and later fell for Peter, oblivious that they were one in the same, as he was very kind to her than just her looks. MJ was defined by three major personas: Her strong sense of generosity, her crush on Spider-Man and her extreme craving for some general affection. Combined these are what lead MJ to initiate a kiss with Spider-Man as it fulfilled all three traits at once. After her kiss with Spider-Man, and before being insulted by Norman and Harry, MJ was shown to be a great deal happier and almost ecstatic, because it had perhaps been her first kiss with someone who loved her back for more than just aesthetic reasons and while she was kissing him, she most likely felt Spider-Man's love for her: something that would have enhanced the sensation of the kiss even more.
Following the deaths of the Green Goblin, Mary Jane still wanted to start a relationship with Peter, but he greatly feared for her safety, which frustrated Mary Jane. Because of her kiss with Peter, she suspected that he and Spider-Man were the same person, but couldn't figure it out more. Mary Jane became disappointed when Peter didn't show up for her play, like he promised he would, but because of his duties as Spider-Man, he was late, which made her estranged from him. She started a relationship with John Jameson to cope with Peter's decline of being in a relationship with her, but soon regretted when she realised she couldn't be with someone she doesn't truly love and Peter was remorseful for not turning up on time.
During the fight between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus, Mary Jane discovered that Peter was in fact Spider-Man, with his mask off, she realised a part of her always knew that both Peter and Spider-Man were the same person. She finally understood why Peter couldn't be with her, as he didn't want her to be endangered in front of his enemies. She fully appreciated his opinion to protect her, but Mary Jane told him he should let her make her own decision and she wanted to be with him, no matter what risks can be caused. All of this was what made Peter accepted her decision to be with him when he realised he inspired her to become brave enough to face those risks whenever he encounters another enemy.
MJ is an 18 or 19-year-old who had white skin, long red hair, and blue eyes in the first movie.
MJ sometimes has patches of red on her face and is almost always seen with red lipstick.
•Considerable Willpower: Similar to Peter, Mary Jane is shown to have strong willpower. Though she was captured by many of Spider-Man's opponents, she was able to put her fears aside and become brave enough to survive or defend herself. She was able to climb down the cable pole, despite her fears she may fall down during the fight on the Queensboro Bridge. She even tried to hit Doctor Octopus with a piece of wood when she tried to help Spider-Man, though she was overpowered by Doctor Octopus afterwards. Mary Jane was able to bravely pick up piece of construction bricks to drop on Venom, so Spider-Man will attack him and jump from the taxicab before a truck was about to hit it.
•Nurturing: Mary Jane is shown to be very caring and nurturing. She was able to give advice and support to Peter when he needed it, especially when he was enraged over learning the identity of Uncle Ben's true killer. Mary Jane even reminded Peter that everyone needs help sometimes, even his alter-ego, Spider-Man.
•Seductive Beauty: Mary Jane is shown to be very beautiful, as noted by Peter, when he thought she was an angel after she and her family moved next door to him and his uncle and aunt's house.
•Acting: Due to her love of acting, Mary Jane is shown to be a talented actress. She was able to perform on school plays back when she was in high school and even the first grade when she played Cinderella. When she used to work on the Broadway Theatre, she was able to act on stage for the The Importance of Being Earnest very well.
•Singing: As noted by Peter, Mary Jane possesses a beautiful singing voice. She was able to sing perfectly during her Broadway debut, though she received criticism from newspaper publishers. When she was working at the Jazz Club, she was able to sing beautifully on stage when the band were playing a song.
•Dancing: Mary Jane is shown to be excellent at dancing. She was able to dance perfectly at the Jazz Room with Peter when they reconciled following the death of Harry.
Peter Parker (Spider-Man)
Mary Jane and Peter knew each other since they were six years of age with Peter falling in love with her instantly. MJ was unaware of this fact and just wanted to be friends. The depth of their relationship before the events of the movie is unknown but it can be assumed that they were friends for a few years until MJ fell into the popular clique and Peter fell into the academic, unpopular clique. After this, they seemed to stay in contact but interacted with each other very little although MJ was still normally nice to Peter as she was the only person on the school bus to tell the driver to let him on and tried to defend him from her boyfriend's violent bullying. Before their relationship developed they shared three friendly moments; MJ posing for Peter's camera on a field trip, Peter saving her from falling in the lunchroom and school, and a rather meaningful conversation about their futures one night. After graduation, MJ's life began going downhill as her dreams of becoming an actress were put on hold after a failed audition, and she took a job as a low-budget waitress, a fact that she felt comfortable revealing only to Peter. MJ seemed to start taking notice that Peter's company made her feel happier than that of her other shallow friends and from then on was always glad to see him. Sometime after this, she flirted with him briefly and called him "tiger". They intended to dine together on thanksgiving with Harry, Aunt May, and Norman Osborn but after an argument with Harry, MJ and Norman left. MJ and Peter saw each other again when they visited Aunt May in the hospital and MJ confessed her love for Spider-Man to Peter (not knowing Peter was Spider-Man). They talked about the superhero and Peter, in an intense and sentimental moment, relieved his feelings for MJ through a moving poetic speech. MJ found herself now falling for Peter and gently held his hand, she looked about to lean in to kiss him but Harry's arrival broke up the moment. The last time MJ was seen with Peter was at uncle Ben's gravestone where MJ hugged Peter to comfort him. It was here that MJ told Peter that he was the only person who made her believe that being herself was a good thing and declared her love for him. MJ then took Peter's face and kissed him tenderly and passionately. MJ assumed that this was their first kiss when in reality she and Peter had already shared a kiss while he was still in his Spider-Man costume. In Spider-Man 2, Mary Jane still wanted to start a relationship with Peter, but he didn't want to as he feared she would become a target for his enemies. Peter as Spider-Man was late for her play, which made Mary Jane disappointed, and she began dating John Jameson which deeply upsets Peter. MJ remained disappointed with Peter as he gave up his Spider-Man identity in hopes of reconciling with her. She was kidnapped by Doc Ock to be used as a trap for Spider-Man which made Peter return as the web-swinging hero once again. When she saw Spider-Man with his mask off, revealing himself as Peter Parker, she realized that he was late for her play because of his superhero activities. Peter says to her that they cannot be together as he would always have enemies and hands Mary Jane over to John Jameson. MJ then leaves John at the altar as she realized that she cannot be with him and wanted to be with Peter as she now knows who he is and wants to face some risks with him. This shows that MJ realizes that Peter is the love of her life. After the events of Spider-Man 2, Peter and Mary Jane are now in a romantic relationship.
•During her childhood, her abusive father always told her that she wasn't worth anything and no man would ever want her. Despite this, she has dated a few men in her life such as Flash Thompson, Harry Osborn, her ex-fiancée John Jameson and Peter Parker.
•Throughout the Spider-Man Trilogy, Mary Jane had always wanted to act on stage, this had due to acting at a very young as implied by Peter.
•Kirsten Dunst wore a red wig in the first film and had to dye her blond hair to red to play the role of Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
•Alicia Witt was considered for the role by Sam Raimi before Kirsten Dunst was cast.
•Kirsten Dunst won two MTV Movie Awards for the first movie; one for Best Female Performance, and one for Best Kiss.
•Elizabeth Banks auditioned for the role of Mary-Jane Watson before being cast as Betty Brant.
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Kirsten Dunst. Actress: Spider-Man. Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive.
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Mary Jane Watson, often shortened to MJ, is a former Broadway actress and the girlfriend of Peter Parker, as well as the ex-fiancée of John Jameson and an ex-girlfriend of Flash Thompson and Harry Osborn. She was played by Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. In the first film, she was dating the high school rival, Flash Thompson, but breaks up with him at their high ...
