Zendaya Coleman Lands Role of Mary Jane in New Spider-Man Movie

Zendaya Coleman just landed a huge role in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming film! Coleman will play Peter Parker's longtime love interest, Mary Jane Watson, according to The Wrap. Suggested Reading You Know Of The Tuskegee Airmen, But You Don’t Know What ‘The Harlem ‘Hellfighters’ Did to Win The War If You Thought You Knew Everything…

Zendaya Coleman just landed a huge role in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming film! Coleman will play Peter Parker's longtime love interest, Mary Jane Watson, according to The Wrap.

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Coleman will star along with British actor Tom Holland, who'll play a young Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man. This will be the first time in Spider-Man history that Mary JaneΒ is portrayed as a black woman.Β Of course, there were some people who weren't too happy to hear the news. The responses were typical, similar to this one:

https://twitter.com/keksec__org/status/766439989341216769

Other people gave some pretty good reasons as to why Coleman can play Mary Jane:

https://twitter.com/sugarcubewill/status/766449839177605121
https://twitter.com/ibiebprofen/status/766443152542576640
https://twitter.com/FoxyJazzabelle/status/766443742039535620
https://twitter.com/90spideypool/status/766443685156364288

https://twitter.com/Todd_J/status/766444671421874177

https://twitter.com/stereowilliams/status/766447105464492032

In any event, here's a video of Peter Parker and Mary Jane dancing.

https://twitter.com/linzzmorgcns/status/766415936169533440

Spider-Man: Homecoming will be released July 7, 2017.

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