It’s now been almost a decade since we last saw Rosario Dawson in action in a Marvel project.
Rosario originated the role of Claire Temple in the Marvel TV series Daredevil in 2015, before reprising the role in Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Defenders.
The Sin City star recently took part in a Q&A session during an appearance at the GalaxyCon Raleigh fan event, where one attendee asked if there were any superheroes she’d like to cross paths with in the future.
“Well, I’m going to have to say – I could have said Spider-Man. I even shot a scene in the new Spider-Man movie, but I got cut out,” she explained.
“I know,” she continued, as the fans in attendance made their disappointment known. “I love it. I told my mom [the scene had been cut] and she was like, ‘That sucks. Now I can’t post the pictures’. And I was like, ‘Right, mum, me being cut out of the movie that has the largest viewership of a trailer ever, the issue is you can’t post your behind-the-scenes photos’.”
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She went on to share that she has a personal connection to Spider-Man in particular, as her uncle is a comic book artist, who used the character to teach himself to draw.
Rosario noted: “So Spider-Man is really huge [in my family]. There’s a frame in one of the new comics that has a young Spider-Man talking to Daredevil, and they made it so that the young Spider-Man goes to PS19 in the Lower East Side, which is where I went to elementary school.
“So when I tell you – my post was already ready, with my BTS, with my grandson wearing all his Spider-Man stuff … Then I got the email that was like, ‘Yeah, nah’.”
Rosario last played Claire in the 2018 season of Luke Cage, insisting shortly afterwards that she was done playing the character – at least for the time being.
At the time, she noted that she’d contributed lines to her character’s dialogue that were inspired by “the instinct of knowing that after five different shows this was probably going to be – at least, for now – a kind of goodbye for Claire”.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is in cinemas now.
