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Latina actress Zendaya rumored to be cast in the role of Mary Jane for Spider-man: Homecoming. However, the only actual info we have is that the actress has signed on for a role in the movie, and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige stated her character name would be "Michelle", leading also to the belief she will instead play Michelle Gonzales, but her role has yet to be officially announced. People are freaking out over it (whether pro or against), grass is green, water is wet, etc.

I mean, if she is going to be MJ, I don't see why everyone is instantly assuming she isn't going to be a red head. It's not like hair color can't be changed for a role.
Basically it's another case of "person playing a character of different ethnicity/gender/whatever". I honestly have no opinion whatsoever and have absolutely no energy to expend over miscasting's anymore, it just feels like a pointless battle to me nowadays. If she's Michelle, cool I don't know that character, this'll be an interesting take. If she is MJ, just make sure her hair his red, and that's all I care about.
That and I guess she better actually be a good actress, that's always a plus

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Nowadays with the race bending shit in any direction I honestly try not to pay attention to it at all unless it's something that ruins the story. Sure that's kinda vague and means a lot to different people but I'm really nihilistic about it and just want a good movie.

Disney Marvel is incapable of making anything less than perfect. So, whatever the casting is, it's going to be perfect. That much I know. And it's spiderman. Peter was already a pretty good fit in Civil War albeit a unique interpretation, so I have no doubts.

Huh, I always thought she was black/white biracial. I guess I'm not the most racially aware person.

Her IMBD page shows that she'll be in the movie

I've never seen anything that she's been in but I hope she's a good pick.

My concern if she is Mary Jane is not her race, but the fact that the only acting roles I know of her working on are those shitty Disney Tween sitcoms, but if you look on Twitter, it's all just about race on both sides

She is, idk how she got labelled Latina.
Poor kid was already bullied out of her Aaliyah role for not being black enough.

How many more Spider Man movies can we actually get tho, haven't they all been terrible?

Spider-Man is a great film with a good balance of corny superhero-ness with action and even the special FX still hold up, Spider-Man 2 is similar but with more human elements and characters are fleshed out more. Even Spider-Man 3 has its moments like Sandman and some of the crap is actually not as bad if you think about it.

TASM 1 is total fucking garbage. TASM 2 is ehhhhhhh.

But yeah like Sam said, I trust MCU Marvel not to fuck it up. Unlike their comics, this seems more akin to Heimdall in the films, a race change that's not a publicity stunt.

I demand red hair though, I don't care how goofy.

The main thing for me is that she is a redhead and calls Peter "Tiger" a whole bunch. I'm sure MCU will get this much right at least.

If Mary Jane is in the movie, as long as she has red hair I don't really care who plays her.

To be honest she looks more like Mary Jane than Woodley or Dunst in the fashion. I just want a Spider-Man movie with what Spider-Man 4 was intended to be.

All the sources I read stated she was Latina, but I guess I should've looked into it myself just to be sure.

Always double-check your sources, kids.