Joel McHale Jokes His Spider-Man 2 Character Should've Been In No Way Home
Joel McHale jokes his character from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 should’ve been in Spider-Man: No Way Home. As the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and culmination of Jon Watts’ Homecoming trilogy, No Way Home capitalizes on Phase Four’s multiverse theory. The film sees Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) crack up the multiverse, bringing Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Men and their respective baddies into the MCU.
Long before McHale was Community’s Jeff Wringer or starred in Stargirl, he was featured in a prominent scene in Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (2004). In the film, a nuclear fusion experiment goes bad and turns Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina) into the mechanical-armed “Doc Ock.” Determined to rebuild his machine and finish his experiment, Doc Ock robs a bank—where Peter Parker (Maguire) and Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) are applying for a loan. McHale plays Mr. Jacks, the bank manager who not only denies the Parkers their loan but attempts to pocket a gold coin during Ock’s robbery. Unfortunately for McHale, May puts him in his place, and he stays there even as Molina’s character was brought into the MCU.
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In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, McHale talked about his upcoming Super Bowl commercial and his experience seeing his former co-stars, Maguire and Molina, in No Way Home. Explaining he “saw it twice in the first week,” McHale said he became emotional when characters from Sony’s past came on screen before joking about how his banker character should have been in the film. Read the rest of McHale's quote below:
“There's this nostalgia and this sort of like… I mean, the movie
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