Kirsten Dunst Would Have Been in Spider-Man: No Way Home if Marvel Had Asked

Kirsten Dunst says she would’ve reprised her role as Mary Jane Watson in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home if Marvel had asked her.

Speaking with GQ Magazine , Dunst was asked if anyone from Marvel Studios asked her to reprise her role as Mary Jane Watson in the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man: No Way Home.

“No, no,” Dunst answered. “I would have.”

Kirsten Dunst wants to give Spider-Man an indie vibe

Dunst said she hasn’t seen Spider-Man: No Way Home, meaning she doesn’t know exactly how her character could’ve factored into the plot; however, she has some ideas regarding what the next chapter of MJ and Peter Parker’s story could look like.

“It would be funny to be like, OK, let’s take Tobey [Maguire] and I and do it in a weird indie way where it’s like a different kind of superhero film,” she said. “Like how they did that movie Chronicle. It could be cool.”

Dunst appeared in all three of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies alongside Maguire, including 2002’s Spider-Man , 2004’s Spider-Man 2 , and 2007’s Spider-Man 3 . “Sam Raimi was like a cult director, so it felt like we were making an indie disguised as a superhero film,” Dunst said of the first film.

Maguire ultimately reprised his role as Peter Parker in Spider-Man: No Way Home, as did Andrew Garfield. A number of villains from previous Spider-Man movies — Jamie Foxx’s Electro, Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus, and more — were also featured.

While there have been rumors suggesting Marvel Studios may be interested in having Raimi make a fourth Spider-Man movie with Maguire, the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director recently said he hadn’t heard anything about such a project as of yet. He did, however, recently express interest in helming Avengers: Secret Wars .

Dunst, meanwhile, will soon be seen in Alex Garland’s Civil War, which hits United States theaters on April 12, 2024.