![]() ![]() ![]() “I remember when we were making Amigo together and having coffee and that’s what our conversation was – how almost every single young actor that’s in the public eye right now is not classically trained. “He studied with Stella Adler,” DeHaan says. And Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a reunion for DeHaan, who was in the movie Amigo with Cooper in 2010. Chris Cooper – who plays Norman Osborn – is famously critical of today’s young actors. I think where that type of person would fit in today’s modern New York City society.”ĭeHaan is aware he may over-think his roles compared to most of his peers. He was the kind of guy who’d be wearing a very fashionable haircut and living in Williamsburg (a hipster neighbourhood in Brooklyn). “To me he’d no longer be the guy wearing suits all day and slicking his hair back. And then I find a way to fit that archetype into modern day society. It was just as important to me to honour Harry and bring him into modern day as it was to bring the Green Goblin into the modern day.”įor the messed-up rich-boy Harry, “I went to the comic books for an understanding of who Harry Osborn has always been in the Spider-Man universe and what he stands for. But DeHaan says, “You have to honour every single step of the movie as a part of the whole. You get the impression that finding Harry Osborn’s tortured soul is closer to his heart than the hardware is. But it’s also like who cares? We get to be bad guys! Jamie (Foxx) gets to be Electro and I get to be the Green Goblin. We get asked how hard is it to be these bad guys. ![]() And there was wire work, and time on gliders. And they were pouring ice water into that suit, and by the time they called ‘Action,’ the water was boiling. “It took an hour to get into,” he says of his Green Goblin suit. Among them, wearing a 50-pound battle suit in a closed studio, heated by lights to a temperature of 110 degrees. Of course, there was a lot they didn’t cover at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. But it’s a false reality, and my anger is at Spider-Man.” “I can be angry onscreen, actually angry. Unfortunately in today’s society, people’s imagination is taken away from them on so many levels. “I’m a firm believer that you can get yourself to believe something is actually happening. “The short answer is it’s imagination,” says the DeHaan. “He’s a total fanboy, for sure,” DeHaan, 28, says with a laugh. In the Beat Generation drama Kill Your Darlings, he was the ostracized son of a “good” family, who used Columbia University as an entry-point into artistic nihilism, homosexuality and drug use.Īnd in the somewhat larger-scale The Amazing Spider-Man 2, he’s Harry Osborn, Peter Parker’s erstwhile best pal, whose rejection by his industrialist dad Norman Osborn (and other “issues”) lead him to his destiny as Spider-Man’s arch enemy the Green Goblin.Īll of which is no reflection on his real life, the one in which DeHaan’s computer programmer dad is proud and pretty much geeked-out over his son’s role as a Spider-Man villain. And I have no idea what they’re doing with the Spider-Man movies now, but I don’t really understand a world in which that would be possible.Onscreen of late, Dane DeHaan has been wrestling with rich-daddy issues. I like making superhero movies or in that kind of world and I’m sure I’ll find myself in that world again. I would certainly love to make some kind of movie like that again. I don’t even know how that would be pulled off. While conceding that he would enjoy doing another movie like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 again, he harbors some confusion about the trajectory of the current Spider-Man franchise, stating, “ I don’t even know how that would be pulled off.” He also commented about the rumors on his Twitter account by sharing a story about his denial and asking fans to " tell my mom so she can stop asking about this." Related: Every Upcoming Superhero Movie In 2021ĭuring press with RadioTimes for his upcoming crime drama television show ZeroZeroZero, Dane DeHaan shot down any rumors of his involvement in the upcoming Spider-Man film. ![]()
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