Tobey Maguire became Spider-Man for real in this scene from the Sam Raimi movie, but we almost didn't get to see it

21 years have passed since the premiere of Spider-Man, the film debut of the wall-crawler. The Sony project was entrusted to Sam Raimi, who knew how to brilliantly transfer the character of Marvel Comics y Tobey Maguire

He put a face to the hero throughout three films.

The first of them came to light back in 2002 and one of the most remembered scenes takes place when Peter Parker is eating in the high school dining room. Mary Jane brushes past him, slipping on a spilled drink on the floor and soon instinctively activating his new spider-like abilities to keep him from falling. However, the most spectacular thing happens when we see that he takes her tray and manages to make everything that he was carrying fall perfectly on top of it, impressing her redhead. Here you have the moment.

How the sequence was carried out has its trick. If we go to the original Spider-Man DVD and activate the comments of the filming crew, we will be able to listen to the person in charge of special effects John Dykstra. He comments that Maguire “it really did. Very impressive and in take 156“, although it must be specified that Dykstra comments on it jokingly.

It’s unclear how many takes both Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire had to do to pull it off, but I’m sure it was quite a few. In any case, the interpreter received extra help to achieve a feat that was phenomenal on camera. The plates had small magnets so that they would fall perfectly on the tray as the team tossed all the objects over the plane.

To round out the play, Dunst revealed that “there’s no CGI, by the way, it was all done by Tobey, which is pretty awesome. They used glue to glue his hand to the tray

“. This was how the actor was able to move the base with which he caught the objects so quickly. Despite being a very beloved moment by the fans, we hardly got to see it in theaters.

The time limits agreed with the production got too long because of the high school scenes and Sony wanted Raimi to get rid of this particular sequence. The director maintained his position after having completed 16-hour marathon shooting sessions and thus we were able to enjoy Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man for a few seconds.

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