Karen Gillan Wants ‘Spider-Girl’ Time

[Chris Beveridge]

Karen Gillan has a lot of fans from her time on*Doctor Who and she’s going to get a few more when she appears in*Guardians of the Galaxy this summer. And because she’s in a big new movie coming up, there’s a lot of interviews and press junket things going on where you have to feel […]

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[One Vorlon]

Re: Karen Gillan Wants ‘Spider-Girl’ Time

I'd take this with a grain of salt. If you look at the excerpt, Karen Gillian doesn't actually knows who the character is. In fact, this was the first time she'd even heard of her:

If you could play a superhero, which one would you choose?
Yeah, who is there…? I want to play a version of Spider-Man that’s a lady.

Spider-Woman?
Spider-Woman – does she exist?

There’s a Spider-Woman and a Spider-Girl.
I want to play Spider-Girl!

So it sounds like Karen just wants to wear spandex and swing from buildings, rather than having any particular attachment to the character. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm more impressed with someone like Angie Harmon (from Rizzoli and Isles), who declared that she wants to play She-Hulk. Not only did she come up with the name unprompted, she was familiar with the character's background and able to explain why she wanted the role.


Edit: Angie Harmon even went on Conan to talk about being She-Hulk. Here's the link

[Egio]

Re: Karen Gillan Wants ‘Spider-Girl’ Time

I could totally see her as May-Day Parker unless she prefers to play Anna (aka Arana) the current 616 Spider-Girl.