Summary
- Rosario Dawson revealed that her return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was cut from the final edit of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
- Dawson dropped the unexpected news: I even shot a scene in the new Spider-Man movie, but I got cut out.
- The cut hit extra close to home for Dawson due to her deep personal connections to the webslinger.
Rosario Dawson revealed that her return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was cut from the final edit of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Marvel fans are reacting to news from a recent comic convention.
During a Daredevil panel at GalaxyCon, Dawson shared that she had suited up once more as Claire Temple. She was the street-smart nurse who famously stitched up Earth’s mightiest vigilantes across Netflix’s Defenders saga. A fan asked which superhero she would love to share the screen with. Dawson dropped the unexpected news:
I even shot a scene in the new Spider-Man movie, but I got cut out.
The revelation drew groans from the audience, but Dawson kept the mood light by sharing her mother’s hilarious, priorities-skewed reaction to the bad news.
I told my mom, and she was like, ‘That sucks. Now I can’t post the pictures,’ Dawson laughed. She recalled how she reminded her mother that her social media feed wasn’t the main tragedy. ‘Right, Mom. Me being cut out of the movie that has the largest viewership of a trailer ever… the issue is you can’t post your BTS photos’.
The sequence reportedly involved Claire treating Tom Holland’s Peter Parker following a brutal fight with Scorpion. However, screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers noted that while the scene was great, it was ultimately excised to tighten up the movie’s bloated runtime.
The cut hit extra close to home for Dawson due to her deep personal connections to the webslinger. Her uncle Gus, a comic book artist, helped her to ignite her love. He did so by teaching her that Spider-Man was the very first character he ever learned to draw. To top off coincidences, a recent comic featured a young Peter Parker attended PS19 in the Lower East Side. The exact same elementary school Dawson attended as a child.
Dawson was so excited about the project that she had an entire social media post lined up, complete with behind-the-scenes snaps of her grandson decked out in Spidey gear.
Then I got the email, she joked, calling herself a reject of Spider-Man.
Even with the setback, Dawson remains optimistic. Marvel is leaning back into its street-level roots. This gives her hope that Claire Temple’s medical kit isn’t packed away.
My character is somewhere in that same universe, and I really love that, Dawson concluded. I hope I get to be Claire again.
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