Shailene Woodley talks about her ‘Spider-Man’ role that vanished

Shailene Woodley is recalling a forgotten Spider-Man casting.

The two-time Golden Globe Award nominee was actually cast and filmed scenes as Mary Jane Watson for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but all of her scenes were ultimately cut.

The Secret Life of the American Teenagerstar revealed she was a huge Spider-Man fan, so getting the role was a dream come true.

She filmed several scenes with Andrew Garfield, who played Peter Parker, only to be told about a year later that Mary Jane would no longer appear in the movie.

“And then, we filmed like three scenes together, me and Andrew Garfield. And then, like a year later, they were like, ‘So, you’re not in the movie anymore,’” the Big Little Lies alum said in a talk with SAG-AFTRA. “And I was like, ‘What? What do you mean?’ And they’re like, ‘We’ve introduced a lot of new characters in this last one, and we’re going to wait for whatever happens between [Emma Stone] and Andrew [Garfield].’”

The filmmakers seemingly wanted to focus on Parker’s relationship with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) and planned to introduce Mary Jane later, potentially after Gwen’s death.

However, that planned follow-up movie never happened, meaning The Fault In Our Stars actress’ version of Mary Jane never got the chance to appear on screen.

“That’s what I was told, but again, who knows what the truth is? I could have been terrible,” she quipped. “And they were like, ‘We can’t do this.’”

The interesting twist is that Garfield has said he would consider playing Spider-Man again, but only if the story were something unusual or “very strange.”

If his version of Spider-Man ever returns, Woodley could finally appear as Mary Jane, making her deleted role relevant again after more than a decade.