Rosario Dawson reprised her role of Claire Temple of Daredevil in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but her cameo was cut from the film.
While attending GalaxyCon in Raleigh, North Carolina, last month, Dawson opened up about learning she would no longer appear in the film.
“Well … I’m going to have to say: I could have said Spider-Man,” Dawson said after a fan asked what character she would like her Daredevil character to work with. “I even shot a scene in the new Spider-Man movie. But I got cut out.”
She continued, “I know. I told my mom, and she was like, ‘That sucks. Now I can’t post the [behind the scenes] pictures [on social media].’ And I was like, ‘Right mom. Me being cut out of the movie that has, like, the largest viewership of a trailer ever, the issue is you can’t post your BTS photos.’”
Dawson noted that her uncle Gus “was a comic-book artist and that’s really the reason I have such an admiration for this space. I knew when Sin City was coming out, I auditioned for it and [knew about] Frank Miller. I understood these things because of [my uncle], and the first character he learned to draw was Spider-Man. So Spider-Man is really huge.”
“There’s a frame in one of the new comics that has a young Spider-Man talking to Daredevil, and they made it so that the young Spider-Man goes to PS19 in the Lower East Side — which is where I went to elementary school!” she said. “When I tell you my post was already ready, with my BTS! My grandson wearing all of his Spider-Man stuff because he loves Spider-Man. Then I got the email that was like, ‘Yeah, nah.’”
Dawson joked, saying, “I’m a reject of Spider-Man,” noting that her Daredevil character “is somewhere in that same universe, and I really love that. I hope I get to be Claire again.”
The star has played Claire Temple across multiple Marvel shows like Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Defenders.
Watch Rosario Dawson talk at GalaxyCon in the video below.
