Tobey Maguire Says Kissing Kirsten Dunst Hardest Thing He's Had To Do - As Spider-Man
Spider-Man is probably the most popular man in our house. Without exaggerating, we have somewhere near 100 Spider-Man related action figures. My son dressed like Spider-Man for Halloween and in his little toddler-brain, Spider-Man will save him from all the brain-eating zombies, Doc Ock and Green Goblin pumpkin bombs out there.Â
But even with all that power and might, the hardest thing Spider-Man's had to do: kiss Kirsten Dunst. I am not surprised. But before I let the snaggletooth insults fly, let's put that quote in the right context. Actor Tobey Maguire, 31, who has played the webbed-hero for all three movie (Spider-Man 3 comes out May 4th) is featured in this week's Parade Magazine where he opens up about that famous kiss (hailed as one of the steamiest at the time), his difficult and lonely childhood, and his future with five-month-old daughter Ruby and fiancee Jennifer Meyer.Â
Maguire on Spidey kissing Dunst:
"Probably the hardest thing I’ve had to do as Spider-Man was kiss Kirsten Dunst. When we shot that scene where we kissed in the alleyway and I was hanging upside down, it was really late at night, it was raining, and the whole time I had rainwater running up my nose. Then, when Kirsten rolled back the wet mask, she cut off the air completely.â€
I totally understand what Tobey's saying. Whenever I see pics of Dunst it cuts off my air too - just in a different way.Â
Tobey also talked about his childhood growing up with parents who were very young, 18 and 20, and the inherent challenges they faced raising a child when they were practically children themselves:
"They were just babies,†he says of his parents, “doing whatever the heck they thought they should be doing. I always felt that there were people in my life who cared about me—that I was special to them. It’s very complicated. But the truth of the matter is, I realized at a young age that I was responsible for myself. My feelings of love or security or happiness—they were all in my own hands. I had plenty of difficult, emotional and scary times as a kid, but I don’t dwell on it."
Proving that some successful Hollywood stars are truly grounded and have a handle on their fame and wealth, Maguire seems to appreciate what he has, but that those tangible items aren't who he is:
"Growing up the way I did, I had a very serious ambition to make some money, to have some security and comfort in my life,†he adds. “When I first started being successful at this, financially speaking, I was very conservative with my money. That was definitely a product of where I came from. You know those Lotto winners who win big and then blow through all the money? That would never happen to me. I just never wanted to put myself in the position where my spending was so huge that I had to keep making movie after movie. My mentality about that has changed a bit,†Fame and fortune aside, Maguire adds: “I feel like you could drop me anywhere in the world, anonymously, and I’d figure out how to survive.  If you stripped away everything I’ve got—the money, the fame, the possessions, everything—I know that I’d find a way to get along, because, basically, that’s what I’ve had to do all my life."
This perspective has certainly had an effect on how he approaches be a father to his child Ruby and what he would like to see for her future as a child of a huge movie-star:
"But I’m at that stage where I have to start thinking about where I want Ruby (his 5-month-old daughter with fiancée Jennifer Meyer) to grow up and go to school. And even though L.A. is pretty laid-back, maybe it would be a good idea to try a different, less ambitious kind of atmosphere."
It's nice to hear about movie-star who acts like a real person. For more on the incredible Tobey Maguire, check out Parade's full interview.Â
