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J.K. Simmons discusses playing J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy and reprising the role for Marvel Studios.
J.K. Simmons revealed his feelings about the end of his time playing J. Jonah Jameson and being asked to reprise the role for more Spider-Man movies.
While on the red carpet for Being the Ricardos, Simmons spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about playing the character across two different iterations of the Web-Slinger. “After the Sam Raimi trilogy and when they moved on from there, it was heartbreaking, I’m not gonna lie,” he said. “And I thought ‘Oh well, that was amazing fun and I’m so glad I had that opportunity.'” Simmons played Jameson, the boisterous, curmudgeon editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle in all three of Raimi’s Spider-Man movies starring Tobey Maguire. He became a fan-favorite for his portrayal and reprising the character in multiple subsequent animated and video game appearances.
“When they came back a couple years ago and said ‘Hey, guess what? We wanna revive that gasbag of a character,’ I was thrilled,” he continued. “It was just a question of adapting him a little bit to 2020 or 2019 or whenever the first movie came out. Really, to me, he’s the same blowhard, just instead of running a newspaper he runs a media empire.”
In the mid-credits stinger for 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, audiences were shocked to see Simmons’s unannounced return as Jameson. Though there were some changes — the Bugle shifted from a muckraking tabloid to a sensationalist video series inspired by the aesthetic of InfoWars and Jameson himself was a touch balder than when last seen — the man was still the same loudmouth, hyperbolic journalist audiences had come to know and love. Jameson’s appearance, though brief, had massive effects, as he played doctored footage that framed Spider-Man for the death of Mysterio and revealed the hero’s secret identity as Peter Parker to the world.
Simmons will return to play Jameson again in Spider-Man: No Way Home. He spoke on how the character will be distinct from the Raimi trilogy this time around, saying, “Certainly, from the creators of the current iteration of the story, it’s a very different character. To me, it’s a slightly different character. It’s the same blowhard; the same guy with less hair. Honestly, I kinda wish he had the same hair.” However, he added, “The most important thing is that he’s still the same blowhard and he does have the same damn mustache and cigar, at least. As is appropriate for that character, he’s a little comic relief thing that gets sprinkled lightly into the movie.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home, directed by Jon Watts, swings into theaters on Dec. 17.
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