"I was like, 'Okay, this guy didn't want a dance double. "I started giving him Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire moves, and Tobey just lit up like that was his jam," she remembers. So she went to Maguire's house to train him. Raimi could not be reached.)įirst, Derricks attempted to get doubles to stand in for Maguire, hewing to the original break-dancing idea. "And Tobey was not having it at all." Maguire's attitude, according to Derricks, was "I don't even know why we need to dance." (Maguire declined to comment for this story. "The way it was written originally was Tobey was going to be like a B-boy spinning on his head, doing more break-dancing stuff," Derricks says. When Derricks got the call to come in, her main responsibility was working out the centerpiece duet between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), after Peter takes her to a jazz club where his ex Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) is working, having failed out of her Broadway gig. ![]() By the time Derricks was called to help Spider-Man 3 get its groove on, she had already been responsible for several other cinematic dance moments ranging from the sexy gyrating of Showgirls to Austin Powers' twist. "Oh my god, there's so many crazy stories about this movie," choreographer Marguerite Derricks tells me over the phone. And in the era of superhero oversaturation, the fact that Raimi paused the battles for his hero to go full Fred Astaire is less bizarre than charming. Earlier this year, a kid doing the "bully dance," wherein Maguire thrusts his hips, went viral. As Rotten Tomatoes alerted its audience, "Prepare yourself: Spider-Man dances!"įifteen years later, Spider-Man 3's dance legacy has been passed down to generations. "At last, we see the secret that lies in Spider-Man’s heart: It’s Peter Parker’s desire to dance as if he were in a revival of Cabaret," Owen Gleiberman wrote in the Entertainment Weekly review at the time. Spider-Man 3 is the black sheep of the Spider-Man trilogy, not least of which because in the middle of it, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker, possessed by the alien symbiote known as Venom, goes goth and busts out a move. And then, eventually, the dancing starts. ![]() It begins with Mary Jane Watson descending a staircase on a Broadway stage. From the moment Spider-Man 3 starts, the tone feels different from Sam Raimi's previous two Spider-Man movies.
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