SpiderManNoWayHome includes a pop-culture reference that you might catch if you were paying attention in the early 2000s
Spider-Man getting into cobra pose. Photo: Moviestore/Shutterstock Warning: As with nearly everything Vulture writes about Spider-Man: No Way Home, this post spoils plot details of the film’s second half.
But as one of the film’s in-jokes reminds us, not everything felt good back then. I’m referring, of course, to Tobey Maguire’s back. What’s the reason for all this? Some might say putting Maguire and Garfield in such a position is its own reward. But it’s probably also a reference to one of the most treasured bits of meta-textual Spider-Man lore: the time Maguire possibly faked a back injury in the hopes of securing a higher payday for Spider-Man 2.
But the studio hit back with threats of its own. Sony began hinting about replacing Maguire with Jake Gyllenhaal, who happened to be dating Kirsten Dunst at the time. Eventually, things got sorted out in a manner reminiscent of Call My Agent! Maguire was in a Hollywood relationship, too — with Jennifer Meyer, daughter of Ron Meyer, who was the president of Universal, which was releasing Seabiscuit.
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