2023-06-01 21:18:02
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Miles Morales has learned to master his powers as Spider-Man, but he’s been keeping a huge secret from his parents for a year regarding what’s happening to him. They are concerned that he is behaving strangely and the principal of his high school calls them for a meeting, which Miles is late for fighting a villain who can blow interdimensional holes. So begins “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
At the meeting, Miles’s mother, Rio, learns that her son got a B in Spanish, even though she is Puerto Rican and tries hard to get him to speak the language well.
“I’ve seen that scene growing up,” said actress Luna Lauren Vélez, who is of Puerto Rican origin and plays Rio in the film that opens internationally this weekend. “Part of what makes this movie so wonderful is the diversity and seeing all those cultures. I think that might happen in any culture where parents want their children to speak their native language and fail to try, even though Shameik is doing very well in Spanish.”
Shameik Moore is the actor who plays Miles for the second time. He said in Spanish that he is “working” on his Spanish.
As for Miles, who is already 15 years old in this installment, Moore announced that he feels more comfortable in his Spider-Man skin, but he misses the friends he met in the spider-verse, especially Gwen with whom he seems to be in love. judging by his sketchbook, which has pages full of her.
“Understand your powers now. And she’s discovering that there are hundreds of other spider people. He also realizes that some have different morals, some support different things,” she said. “There is no such thing as right or wrong, but he understands what feels good and what feels bad…he figures out how he’s going to wear that mask.”
It’s not an exaggeration to say that the cast and production team of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” faced high expectations. Its predecessor, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (“Spider-Man: A New Universe”), was the winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA and, for culminate, the Oscar for best animated feature film. And in the years since its release in late 2018, the eagerness of fans has only increased.
Producers and writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller remained on the project, which they co-wrote with David Callaham. But the direction went from Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey to Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson.
The cast is completed by Brian Tyree Henry, in the role of Jefferson, Miles’ police father; Shea Whigham as Police Officer George Stacy, Gwen’s father; Issa Rae as a pregnant Spider-Woman; Jake Johnson as a Peter B. Parker who already has a baby he cares for; Daniel Kaluuya as a Spider-Punk; and Oscar Isaac as no-nonsense spider leader Miguel O’Hara.
Jason Schwartzman is in charge of the voice of The Spot, the villain with holes – his body is plagued with traversable black circles that according to Miles make him look like a cow or a Dalmatian – who is gaining more strength and creating holes that pass from different dimensions to different universes.
“I think that in the end the result will be that the fans will love her. It really has been an honor,” Moore said. “Yesterday we went to a school and we saw how excited the kids were, for all of us it’s very special… It’s a film that for me adequately represents the land we live in, that I experience in my day to day.”
As in the first film, Hailee Steinfeld plays Gwen who is seen in many more action scenes and whose personal history, as well as her character, is shown in greater depth in “Across the Spider-Verse.”
“She is in the middle of a lot of conflict. One of the biggest obstacles she faces is her father, whom she loves very, very much and with whom she has a very close relationship. But he, as a cop, is on a mission to find the so-called Spider-Woman (Gwen), so this leads to very interesting conversations at the dinner table, if you will.”
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