The Mary Jane Watson Who Never Was: Shailene Woodley Opens Up About Being Cut From Her “Dream” Role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2

You may recall that Shailene Woodley was cast as Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The Divergent and Big Little Lies actor shot her scenes opposite Andrew Garfield’s wall-crawler for what she now calls her “dream” role in the Marvel-Sony sequel, only to later find out she had been cut from the movie entirely before it hit theaters in 2014. In a recent chat with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Conversations (via The Hollywood Reporter), Woodley recalled her disappointment when she learned a year after she’d shot her scenes that she had been cut from Amazing Spider-Man 2. “I was cast as Mary Jane for Spider-Man, which was my dream. Oh my god, Spider-Man’s my favorite superhero; Mary Jane was my favorite character growing up. So, when I got it, I was like, ‘This is so exciting!'” Woodley said. “We filmed like three scenes together, me and Andrew Garfield. And then, like a year later, they were like, ‘So, you’re not in the movie anymore.’ And I was like, ‘What? What do you mean?’ And they’re like, ‘We’ve introduced a lot of new characters in this last one, and we’re going to wait for whatever happens between [Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy] and Andrew [Garfield].'” “They were like, ‘Le