Fast-rising star Emma Stone
plays Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker’s first love and more importantly, his first
real connection to the world around him, in Columbia Pictures' new
action-adventure, “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
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| Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy |
It’s
a very different relationship from the one that audiences might be more
familiar with. “I feel like Mary Jane fell in love with Spider-Man. Gwen falls
in love with Peter Parker,” Stone explains.
In
the film, Stone’s Gwen -- a high school valedictorian, all-round brainiac and
head intern for Dr. Curt Connors at OsCorp -- comes to the fore as the girl who
helps Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker keep his feet on the ground even as his
tremendous powers let him soar through the sky.
“She’s
his confidante,” says Stone, who returned to her natural blonde hair for the
role, a far cry from the redhead she’s sported through most of her movie
career. “She’s the only one who knows that he’s Spider-Man, which is kinda
great. And the nice thing is that Gwen falls in love with Peter first. She
loves the boy, in spite of him being Spider-Man, rather than the other way
around.”
And,
as the romance between the high school sweethearts blossoms, Gwen, whose
father, Captain George Stacy (Denis Leary) is the police chief charged with
finding Spider-Man and bringing him to justice, finds that her life just may be
in danger.
“Getting
involved with Peter is the first irresponsible thing she’s ever done. She knows
that this boy is dangerous and there’s probably some complex about her father
having a dangerous job,” admits Stone. “It’s her first time really standing up
to her father and doing something he wouldn’t approve of. She has her whole
life planned out and Peter really changes that for her. You’re going to see
Gwen experience being out of control for the first time.”
The
heart of the film, Stone says, is the relationship between Gwen and Peter.
“Director Marc Webb’s biggest goal was working out that relationship,” she
says. “We’re operating in a superhero universe, but that relationship has to
feel grounded and real. I think the reason that so many fans of the comic books
feel so protective of Gwen – or Mary Jane – is that those relationships did
feel real and did feel grounded. As actors, it’s nice to have that material to
build from – it already feels genuine.”
“The
relationship between Peter and Gwen is very significant – the previous movies
haven’t explored this until now,” says producer Matt Tolmach. ”Gwen is a very
self-assured character; she’s his rival intellectually. And her father happens
to be Captain Stacy and let’s be honest, it’s hard enough to meet your
girlfriend’s parents for the first time, but when he happens to be the head of
the police force that’s chasing you, it makes things that much more
complicated. But there’s an emotional honesty and partnership that’s unique to
their relationship. Gwen is really the only person who truly knows Peter – and
because of that, there’s a closeness that develops between the two of them that
neither of them have with anyone else in their lives.”
“The Amazing Spider-Man” is distributed by Columbia Pictures,
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