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Marisa Tomei Is Your New Aunt May

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Marisa to (be) May. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

According to Variety, Marisa Tomei has scored the plum role of Aunt May alongside Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in Marvel and Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man reboot. Some insiders are saying Tomei will make her first appearance as Aunt May in Captain America: Civil War, joining literally everyone else in Hollywood. If Tomei seems too young for the role to you (as she did to us at first), that’s likely your impressions being skewed by the earlier Spider-Man movies, which cast 75-year-old Rosemary Harris and 66-year-old Sally Field in the role. Marisa Tomei is 50, which is a fairly realistic age for a person to have a nephew in high school. Tomei will also appear in the next season of Empire, playing a lesbian billionaire, which would certainly be a very progressive place to take Aunt May as well.

Marisa Tomei Is Your New Aunt May