Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Star Hailee Steinfeld Is Ready for Live-Action Spider-Gwen Movie

The two lead characters of the beloved Spider-Verse franchise have yet to appear in live-action, but plenty of Marvel fans are hoping that will change in the future. Miles Morales should’ve been in the live-action movies years ago. As far as Gwen Stacy is concerned, we’ve seen a couple iterations of the character as a love interest for Peter, but not as the Spider-Gwen/Spider-Woman hero depicted in the comics and in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

If that changes at some point, Spider-Verse star Hailee Steinfeld would obviously love to bring that Spider-Woman into a live-action world. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter about Across the Spider-Verse, Steinfeld said that a live-action Spider-Gwen would be the easiest “yes” of her career.

Steinfeld was also asked about how differently she would portray Gwen Stacy in a live-action format, having already voiced her for multiple movies.

“I generally thought that you would make things bigger in animation, but in this film and with these characters, there’s a lot of importance on being grounded and being real and feeling authentic,” Steinfeld said. “There may have been a time where I felt the need to overcompensate because it wasn’t live-action. It wasn’t me doing the thing. So I felt like in order for you to feel it on the other end, I had to go bigger, but I very quickly realized that there’s no need for that. With everything that’s going on and all the different animation styles and the music being such a huge part and the score being so moving, all I had to do was feel as real in the material as possible. So, would I deliver the lines differently in live-action? That’s such an interesting thing. I imagine if they’re coming from the same place, it would feel similar, but with some physicality added in there, it would inherently be different.”

Miles Morales returns to the big screen with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse now playing in theaters after premiering on June 2nd. Miles (Shamiek Moore) reunites with fellow heroes Spider-Gwen (Hailee Steinfeld) and Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson) for another web-swinging adventure through the multiverse, finding himself at odds with the Spider-Society led by Spider-Man 2099 (Oscar Isaac). Other new heroes include Spider-Woman Jessica Drew (Issa Rae), Spider-Punk (Daniel Kaluuya), and Pavitr Prabhakar (Karan Soni), while new villain the Spot (Jason Schwartzman) also enters the fray. The sequel to Sony Pictures’ hit 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, and written by the team of Chris Miller, Phil Lord, and Dave Callaham.