Have you watched any of the Spider-Man movies you’re not in?
I have not.
Are your kids at the point where they wanna watch your Spider-Man movies?
Not quite, but my four-year-old wanted to watch Venom recently and I was like, sure, why the hell not. That was a mistake because he loves doing the Venom voice now. It’s not that I don’t enjoy [superhero movies], I just don’t think I will, for some reason. But when I watch them I’m usually pleasantly surprised.
Would you ever do another superhero movie?
Why not? But I think I would have to play Mary Jane again—just old-girl Mary Jane. I’ve had conversations about playing other characters in superhero movies before, but they won’t hire me because I’m too closely identified with Mary Jane.
That’s why it’d be so much fun for you to do something completely unexpected.
The biggest impression a character in a superhero movie ever made on me was Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy. If I had my dream pick, I’d wanna do something like that.
Oh, I would love to see you camp it up as a Batman villain.
Exactly, like that sounds fun to me. I also really loved Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman. Let me play a villain!
I love that you seem to appreciate a camp sensibility—now I understand why films like Drop Dead Gorgeous appealed to you.
I think that growing up, I had to develop my taste as I went along. I loved John Waters movies and goofy comedies, but then I’d watch Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter and go: “I wanna make something like that!” Drop Dead Gorgeous isn’t streaming anywhere, right?
It only recently started streaming on Paramount+, but for the longest time it was quite hard to find.
