Since it was first reported practically a full yr in the past, one of many huge issues on everybody’s thoughts in regard to Spider-Man: No Way Home are its villains. The returning baddies of Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin and Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus from Sam Raimi’s authentic trilogy and Jamie Foxx’s Electro of the Amazing duology are caught up in some multiversal insanity that spells potential hassle for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker.  

At Brazil’s CCXP this weekend, the three actors obtained the prospect to speak about their expertise returning to the roles they inhabited within the comparatively early days of Spider-Man fever that’s swept the world. The preliminary pitch offered all three of them, however what actually appealed to all of them was that No Way Home’s characters could be comparable, however totally different. “It’s a return to something I did before with that kind of history,” Dafoe stated, “but there’s a spin on it, and that appealed to me.” Foxx echoed his costar’s sentiment, saying that producer Amy Pascal defined how he’d be a bit of extra “hip” than his first run at Electro and to his gratefulness, wouldn’t should be blue.

Dafoe teased that there’d been “upgrades” offered to his Goblin costume, and the opposite villains have undergone comparable redesigns for No Way Home. Instead of being on-set props like they had been in 2004’s Spider-Man 2, Doc Ock’s tentacles at the moment are performed digitally, whereas Foxx known as his new look as not attempting too arduous. “I relate it to R&B,” he stated. “Back then, you had fringes or shoulder pads, but now you can just sing.” For Dafoe, there was a consolation within the ease of being fitted in comparison with the unique Spider-Man’s eight-hour take a look at: they only scanned him, created the costume from the scan, and adjusted accordingly.

More than something, the actors are simply excited to play these villains once more, who all of them say have their very own arcs all through the movie. “In a lesser environment, us as villains, we would just be functionaries who exist just to get the plot going,” Molina stated. “But here, we’ve got real storylines, and they’re real people.” With that traditional sinister smile, Dafoe teased that Green Goblin would “make a case this time…it’s not just about some abstract muscle twirling power grab.”

Spider-Man: No Way Home arrives in theaters on December 17.