When Tobey Maguire Went Topless For An Action Scene In Spider-Man To Convince The Makers, Locking The Hefty $30 Million Payday!

Did you know how Tobey Maguire secured his role as Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's trilogy? Read this to know more about it!

- January 5, 2023 | 12:46 PM IST

Tobey Maguire Once Shared To Secure '$30 Million' Payday In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man He Stripped Down For Action Scene — When Tobey Maguire Revealed That He Had To Strip Down For An Action Scene At Audition ( Photo Credit – Movie Still )

It was Sam Raimi who had first introduced our friendly neighbourhood superhero through Tobey Maguire who was not born with powers but became one by accident. However, Tobey ruled our hearts being the first live-action Spider-man, looking so real and innocent. However, did you know the Marvel studios weren’t sold on Tobey to be the Spider-Man even though in Sam Raimi’s head he was the one? Yes, that’s right. Scroll below to read what he had done to lock in the role!

After Tobey, Andrew Garfield wore the shoes as Amazing Spider-Man, and later, Tom Holland became MCU’s Spider-Man who is now ruling over our hearts. However, Spider-Man: No Way Home will always be special as we got our childhood days back through Tobey and Andrew.

Now coming back to how Tobey Maguire secured the role of being Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. In an interview with Howard Stern in 2002, Tobey can be heard saying “In Sam’s mind I think I was the guy but the studio wasn’t sold on me.” When the host asked whether it’s true that Sam then went to shoot some sort of a movie with him to prove that he will be a good Spider-Man, Tobey revealed “It was a bit of process. We shot an audition tape in a room and it was sent to them. Took them a couple of days to see it and even if it rubbed off my ego a little bit. But then they saw the tape and they were like ‘we know he can act let’s see if he can do an action scene’.”

Tobey Maguire further added, “So we did a proper action scene and I wore a blue unitard which compresses the muscle so you could see the definition and I was in pretty good shape so I peeled the thing down, tied it around my waist and did the action scene topless.” Howard then can be heard saying it was a smooth move as he got his $30 million payday from the movies.

Watch the full interview here: