The star of the recently released video game Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has said he was “honored” to make an appearance in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
In an interview with PlayStation Lifestyle, Yuri Lowenthal was asked about what it was like to be in Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Verse sequel. The actor spoke about how he brought the video game character over into the film through his performance and riffed with writer and producer Phil Lord.
“I basically brought that guy, because that was the guy that they wanted,” Lowenthal stated. “We were honored that they would want include Insomniac’s Spider-Man as part of the cinematic Spider-Verse, so I just brought that guy, which was basically just bringing me to the room. [Laughs]. It was really fun. Working with Phil Lord was a blast because he had some stuff that they thought they were going to go with, a couple lines, and said, ‘We think this is going to be it, but let’s spend an hour riffing and see what other sort of funny things we can come up.’
“I think, in the end, they ended up going pretty much with what they had originally thought they would do, but it was a blast just coming up with stuff with him. I’d come up with something and then he’d get an idea and he’d come up with something. Then I’d be like, ‘Oh, wait, wait, what if we try this?’ So it was fun, just being a part of the thing that I loved so much.”
Who directed Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson. It features the voices of Shameik Moore as Miles Morales, Hailee Steinfeld as Gwen Stacy, Jake Johnson as Peter B. Parker, Issa Rae as Spider-Woman, Daniel Kaluuya as Spider-Punk, Karan Soni as Spider-Man India, Oscar Isaac as Spider-Man 2099, Jason Schwartzman as The Spot, Brian Tyree Henry as Jefferson Davis, Luna Lauren Velez as Rio Morales, Greta Lee as Lyla, Andy Samberg as Scarlet Spider, and more.
