Elizabeth Banks wanted to get the role of Spider-Man’s girlfriend in the screen version which was filmed in 2002. “I screen-tested for the role of Mary-Jane Watson in the first Spider-Man movie, opposite Tobey Maguire. Tobey and I are basically the same age and I was told that I was too old to play her,” the actress once shared in an interview. But in the end, the producers chose to give the role of Mary-Jane to a younger actress, Kirsten Dunst, who was around 8 years younger than Banks.