Having lent her voice to the character in the Marvel Rising animations, Descendants star Dove Cameron has now thrown her hat into the ring to play Gwen Stacy for the character’s inevitable introduction into the live-action Spider-Man series.
“I would love to play Gwen Stacy,” Cameron tells Yahoo. “I would love to play Spider-Gwen, or Ghost Spider, or whatever kind of incarnation they’re going to make her into. I think that she’s such a great character. I mean, I love Emma Stone in the last incarnation of Gwen Stacy, but I was really honoured when they asked me to voice her and I would love a chance to audition.”
“I would love it if she was an equal match [to Tom Holland’s Peter Parker],” she continued. “I would love it if she was a physical threat… if she was quite a force. I just love playing characters for women that are not so thin – and I mean thin, like emotionally – that are not so narrowly defined. I would love if she was a bit difficult or complex… just how real girls are.”
At this point, it’s unclear whether Marvel Studios will look to bring Gwen into the MCU, but one would suspect that if she isn’t utilised there that Sony will make use of the character as part of its own shared universe. So, perhaps Cameron – who has previously appeared in the Marvel TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – may get that wish of an audition at some point in the not too distant future.
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