Spider-Man: Homecoming early reactions hit the web a couple of days ago and the film, the first Spider-Man film to be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has gotten a largely positive response. The cast, which features Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Tony Revolori, is probably one of the most diverse films to grace the MCU.
At the Spider-Man: Homecoming press conference in New York this weekend, producer Amy Pascal and the rest of the cast praised the film’s diversity. Revolori thinks it’s “wonderful” and that it’s the “diversity we need in Hollywood.”
“It’s wonderful. When you see the film, there’s not a single line of exposition as to explain why I look the way I look, and I think that’s wonderful. That I just am in the movie; it’s not about a certain race, it’s not about doing anything. I think that’s the diversity we need in Hollywood now.”
Revolori also extended his thanks Pascal, Kevin Feige, and director Jon Watts, saying: “Thank you to Jon, Amy, and Kevin for casting a 5’ 8” brown guy” to play Flash Thompson, a traditionally white character in the comics.
Pascal was asked what inspired her and the rest of Sony and Marvel to cast such a multiracial cast and her response was a great one.
“I would say the inspiration for it was reality.”
Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: Homecoming stars Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Tony Revolori, Kenneth Choi, Hannibal Buress, Abraham Attah, Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr.
Spider-Man: Homecoming will be released in theaters on July 7, 2017.
Source: Vulture
