{"id":356490,"date":"2025-12-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=405637"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:00:40","slug":"kate-hudson-was-close-to-playing-an-iconic-character-from-the-spiderman-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/kate-hudson-was-close-to-playing-an-iconic-character-from-the-spiderman-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Hudson was close to playing an iconic character from the Spiderman universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kate Hudson was very close to becoming one of the most iconic faces in superhero cinema in the early 2000s. Recently, in an interview on the show &#8216;Watch What Happens Live&#8217; with Andy<strong>Cohen, the actress revealed that she turned down the role of Mary Jane Watson in &#8216;Spider-Man&#8217;, directed by Sam Raimi, which became a global phenomenon.<\/strong> Hudson, who had gained fame for her performance in &#8216;Almost Famous&#8217;, reflected on this important decision at a crucial moment in her career.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opportunities that close, others that open<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The actress confessed that, although she chose to star in &#8216;The Four Feathers&#8217;, a war drama that did not achieve the expected success at the box office, she does not regret her choice. <em>It&#8217;s one of those things that I remember and think: It would have been great to be part of a Spider-Man movie<\/em>, Hudson mentioned, adding that she had a significant experience during the filming by meeting Heath Ledger, who would become a great friend. However, <strong>the film only grossed 29 million dollars against a budget of 35 million, resulting in a commercial failure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Despite this, <strong>Hudson has adopted a philosophical perspective on missed opportunities<\/strong>. <em>A part of me thinks: Life happens exactly as it should happen. And for that, I am grateful<\/em>, she stated, although she acknowledged that it is not comfortable to imagine replacing another actress in such an iconic role. <em>It doesn&#8217;t seem right to talk about it because the people who are in the movie are the right ones<\/em>, she concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Spider-Man&quot; (2002) Theatrical Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KW8stZ2jSQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>With more than two decades since that decision, <strong>Hudson&#8217;s reflection resonates with many actors facing similar crossroads<\/strong>, raising the eternal question of how our choices shape our artistic trajectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Hudson was very close to becoming one of the most iconic faces of superhero cinema in the early 2000s. Recently, in an interview on the show &#8216;Watch What Happens Live&#8217; with Andy Cohen, the actress revealed that she turned down the role of Mary Jane Watson in &#8216;Spider-Man&#8217;, directed by Sam Raimi, which became a global phenomenon. Hudson, who had gained fame for her performance in &#8216;Almost Famous&#8217;, reflected on this important decision at a crucial moment in her career. Opportunities that close, others that open The actress confessed that, although she chose to star in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":356492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[20007,20008,10412,4137],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-356490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kate-hudson","tag-mary-jane","tag-sam-raimi","tag-spiderman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356504,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356490\/revisions\/356504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356490"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=356490"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=356490"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=356490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}