Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Actor Says Peter’s Symbiote Possession is “Very Grounded and Believable”
Insomniac Games released the launch trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 recently, showcasing new and returning villains and the effect of the Symbiote on Peter Parker. Though the available gameplay showcased some harrowing things with his psyche, hearing him lash out at his friends has only reinforced that he’s not okay.
For Marvel Comics fans, this is pretty accurate. However, for those who only know the Symbiote from the disastrous Spider-Man 3, which spawned the Bully Maguire memes, it may be a new feeling. Speaking to Collider, actor Yuri Lowenthal, who portrays Peter Parker, says he’s excited for fans to experience it.
“Knowing that I would get the Symbiote and would have to play a fundamentally different kind of Peter Parker for a while was also super exciting because actors love to play villains. But I wasn’t aware of how hard it would be to make Peter bad. Peter is your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and making him sort of act in a way antithetical to who he is, putting people before him to becoming selfish, trying to take care of people to become violent, all of those things, and finding a way to make that…
“You know, in the past, sometimes if you slap the Symbiote on Peter and all of a sudden, he’s Bully Maguire, it can be comical at times, and that was something that they really wanted to take a great amount of care within this game. They didn’t want it to feel like a joke, a parody, or a meme.
“So, while I’m sure this game will spawn a million memes, they wanted to keep it grounded, and that all happened with the relationships and power dynamics and how things change from the last games, both the first game and the DLC and the Miles game that we’ve seen. So, I’m just excited for people to go on that journey
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