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.

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 Jane is portrayed as a black woman. 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

"Mary Jane Watson needs to be a TRUE redhead!!"

Uh…Kirsten Dunst is blonde IRL. How do you think she was able to play MJ, HMMMM???

— Just a Regular Fox on the I.R.T. (@FoxyJazzabelle) August 19, 2016

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.