In an interview with Raw, Monday January 10, Pierre Niney explained that he had been contacted to pass the casting for the role of Spiderman, but he refused. He explained his decision.
There could have been a French hero. Wednesday, December 15, in France, the film Spider-Man: No Way Home, with Tom Holland in the role of the superhero (and marked by the return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, former interpreters of the spider-man) was released in theaters. It marks the end of the trilogy with Zendaya’s boyfriend in the title role after Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019).
Trilogy which could have been held by a French actor… Pierre Niney. “My American agents offered to take the tests for Spider-Man, and I said, “Yeah, serious, I’ve been Peter Parker since I was born, I worship Spider-Man in absolute absurdity” “, confided the frenchie in an interview with Brut, Monday January 10.
Pierre Niney: “It scared me”
Pierre Niney, however, refused to pass the casting. “When they said to me: “On the other hand, know that if you pass the tests and there is a second round, you start to engage in a process where Marvel gets hold of you and if you ever make the film, you have to sign for six. , seven, eight years of franchising with them. ” It scared me very much, I told myself : “I don’t want that”. “ He said no to Hollywood, prioritizing his French career. “They offer me great, varied, different and rich stuff in France. So I said no to the casting. Casting, you will understand, where I would never have been caught. “ Would Pierre Niney be defeatist? With humor, he concluded: “Why they would have come to look for Pierre Niney who falls just after Pierre et Vacances on Google ? “.
Internet users would however have seen Pierre Niney in a blue and red combination: “He would have made an excellent Spider-Man!”, “That would have been cool!”, “Actually, he looks like an actor like Spider-Man”, we could read a comment, where an internet user joked: “He is saving himself for Leaf-Man.” In a video by McFly and Carlito, in January 2021, Pierre Niney had notably joked about a superhero who would be a sheet of paper. Video that had made the buzz.