John Leguizamo is opening up about feeling like a pawn when he was ultimately sidelined in favor of Michael Keaton to play the villain in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
The Romeo + Juliet actor recently revealed that he was in negotiations to play Vulture opposite Tom Holland in the Sony Pictures film.
Leguizamo entered the conversation after Michael Keaton’s deal to star in the superhero film stalled. “I was supposed to be the Vulture,” Leguizamo told ComicBook in an interview. “We had negotiated and I was about to play him, and they said that Michael Keaton wanted it back and they asked me if I would give it up.
I said, ‘Well, okay I guess.’ They said, ‘No, we’ll work with you again, we’re gonna…’ That’s what happened there.” Leguizamo said that Sony subsequently offered him “something tiny” that he ultimately opted to decline. RELATED: Donald Glover Set For Spider-Man Film At Sony Centered On Villain Hypno-Hustler After news sources picked up Leguizamo’s claim, the Encanto voice actor followed up by saying he felt like a “pawn” during the whole process. “It’s true but I was used as a pawn to close Keaton but I should have said ‘no’ because we had agreed to terms!
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