SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Star Jamie Foxx Addresses Electro's Overhauled Attitude And Look In The Movie

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Star Jamie Foxx Addresses Electro's Overhauled Attitude And Look In The Movie

Spider-Man: No Way Home delivers a fresh spin on The Amazing Spider-Man 2's Max Dillon/Electro, and actor Jamie Foxx has now shared his thoughts on giving the electrifying baddie a new attitude and look.

By JoshWilding - Dec 21, 2021 05:12 AM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home
Source: Marvel.com

Jamie Foxx is an Oscar-winning actor, though you'd never have guessed after watching The Amazing Spider-Man 2. That version of Electro was, quite frankly, abysmal, but Spider-Man: No Way Home gives Foxx a shot at redemption. He certainly finds it, with a scene-stealing performance that's already led to chatter about a spinoff movie for Max Dillon. 

It helps that Electro has been given a new look and attitude, and while the threequel does explain those changes (to an extent, anyway), Foxx himself has now weighed in. 

"The [biggest] thing that changed is that he acknowledged the way he looked," he tells Marvel.com. "He acknowledged, ‘Oh, I like this, I dig this.’ By doing that, it answers any questions like why or what's this thing? Being able to do that, and just bringing a little of the way I wanted to talk and how I wanted to present myself, [Electro] has a little hipness to him."

"That was the whole team. A whole Spider-Man team on how to make this guy cool. How do we make him impactful, but make him a little more grounded?" Foxx continues. "When he acquired some [abilities], it really made sense in the way he was able to project himself."

The Electro actor also praised his costume and the way it features "a wink and nod to the comic book character" when he powers up. Appearances aside, it seems the most exciting part of working on No Way Home for Foxx was his famous co-stars. "Just looking to my right, and looking to my left, the people that were onset, and going, ‘Wow, It's a moment.’ It transcends art right now. I remember saying, ‘When you walk out sir, there will be cheers and tears.’"

Electro may or may not have a future on screen beyond Spider-Man: No Way Home, but Foxx made the most of this chance to play Max again and delivered a far more memorable take on the villain in the process. If a solo movie were to happen, we're not entirely sure what direction it could head in, but if a certain web-slinger were to join him, it could be one of Sony's best Marvel movies to date.

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bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 12/21/2021, 6:09 AM
He definitely deserved the overhaul too after how dirt they did him in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 12/21/2021, 8:00 PM
@bkmeijer - I'm not Foxx's biggest fan - he is - but he was never the problem, just like Garfield was never the problem. They just got saddled with lackluster material.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 12/21/2021, 6:12 AM
I was just hoping they went with the original look for Jamie's Electro.

tylerzero
tylerzero - 12/21/2021, 6:54 AM
@DarthOmega -

HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 12/21/2021, 7:41 AM
@DarthOmega - If only Electro would say, "I'm gonna rock yo world."
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/21/2021, 7:54 AM
@DarthOmega - to bad other marvel characters in movies didn’t have same original look but of some of them did they stupid goofy and laughable unrealistic in modern world
BecauseICare
BecauseICare - 12/21/2021, 9:07 AM
@DarthOmega - But unlike Wanda, Electro wasn't "ret ta go!"
MahN166A
MahN166A - 12/21/2021, 9:24 AM
@DarthOmega -

As soon as Electro had Garfield in that current in NWH:

“…. I got chu…and I’m rey to go!”
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 12/21/2021, 10:20 AM
@SatsuiNoJXA -

SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 12/21/2021, 10:22 AM
@DarthOmega - He was blue at first though. It was the energy he was absorbing was different and transformed him.
Mugens
Mugens - 12/21/2021, 6:18 AM
Yeah he definitely needed an overhaul on his look from his original appearance. Also nice to hear that he could appreciate the company he was in. I bet they all had a blast making the movie. Extras on a DVD/BluRay disc will be interesting to see. Not to mention he got the chance to give that barely disguised shout-out/easter egg to another character in the Spider-verse. (No Spoilers here.) He was well served in this film.
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/21/2021, 7:54 AM
@Mugens - that is how he look in ultimate Spider-Man comics same venom in venom movie
Odin
Odin - 12/21/2021, 6:33 AM
To be fair here, Electro was done so differently over all in NWH, that he felt more like different variant from multiverse than the same character from the shitty TASM 2. Even when they made references to his pre-power state. And I might actually like to think him more as such.

Even though I pretty much loved NWH and everyone in it, by no means did the film retroactively redeem TASM movies for me. I still think they are shit.
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 12/21/2021, 10:16 AM
@Odin - It's weird, because I think even Garfield did better in his role as PP. But the TASM series gets no redemption from me.
Odin
Odin - 12/21/2021, 10:24 AM
@sKeemAn - Yeah Garfield did better, but that's because this was hands down the best Spider-man material he has yet worked with.
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 12/21/2021, 8:02 PM
@sKeemAn - Garfield was always excellent. It was always the material.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 12/21/2021, 9:12 PM
@Odin -
Not just "felt" different. In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Electro was mentally ill. That was an actual plot point in the movie. He heard voices in his head, had delusions about being Spider-Man's best friend, he talked to himself and convinced himself that Spider-Man was showing up to his birthday party, and reacted to situations in paranoid and irrational ways. He was basically a Batman villain.

In No Way Home, he's not only perfectly sane but he's basically a different character entirely.
RageDriver2401
RageDriver2401 - 12/21/2021, 7:41 AM
He was essentially MF Jones playing Electro in this movie. It worked.
BecauseICare
BecauseICare - 12/21/2021, 9:06 AM
@RageDriver2401 - MF Jones was the SH*T!!! I live!
MahN166A
MahN166A - 12/21/2021, 9:27 AM
@RageDriver2401 -

“So you DO KNOW, the movie?”
🤣
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/21/2021, 7:58 AM
I really like how people don’t like how characters look in movies they look in marvel ultimate comics they don’t complain about it social media at all
Odin
Odin - 12/21/2021, 9:22 AM
@dragon316 - Haven't you yourself always spoken on how comic accuracy in characters appearance doesn't always work. "Cap's pirate glows". What works in medium doesn't always work in other and there are also some many ways you can adapt a certain look.
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/21/2021, 8:30 AM
See his coolness, coupled with Andrews bitterness, should really tell us that at some point he finds out that Andrew is not black. And that’s why he had to die
PapaSpank54
PapaSpank54 - 12/21/2021, 8:31 AM
"that new new"
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 12/21/2021, 8:37 AM
Funny that he’s one of the prominent 3 villains, like Rhys and THC (I don’t get it) could feel the winds of change. They should have combined powders. Powers. They should have combined powers.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 12/21/2021, 9:08 AM
Did he ever know about Spider-Man’s identity?
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 12/21/2021, 10:51 AM
@Arthorious - he did not. He even acknowledged that when his unmasked
inkniron
inkniron - 12/21/2021, 10:53 AM
@Arthorious - I didn't think he did. That's where just making him a variant instead of magically changing his appearance and knowledge would have been perfectly A-OK. That was just one of the handful of unnecessary things that dropped NWH from an A to a B for me.
Saga
Saga - 12/21/2021, 9:18 AM
Truly scene stealing, one of my favorite scenes is when he's talking to Connors. He really reminded me of PS4 electro, must have been an inspiration
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 12/21/2021, 9:44 AM
@Saga - I got a lot of PS4 vibes from this movie especially the ending. I do think they used that as inspiration for certain things given it’s popularity and given that it’s now my favorite version of the character I think that’s a good thing.
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 12/21/2021, 9:47 AM
I liked the adjustment, I was one of the few that liked his design in TASM 2 but I was totally fine with what they did here and thought the whole “new universe new energy” thing worked totally fine
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 12/21/2021, 10:14 AM
I definitely enjoyed his the change in character. Seems more like a variant to me, which I'm ok with. i dont remember him ever knowing who SM man was.
JonC
JonC - 12/21/2021, 5:36 PM
My take on his 'makeover' is this... he has the ability to completely change his form, not consciously but unconsciously as he changes from human to pure electrical energy and back... so its not hard to assume he has the ability to make changes as well... the basic guts of his new look were always in his old character... it was mostly confidence he was lacking... and being supercharged and equal to spiderman really boosted his ego to the point that when he reconstituted himself into human form he was the best version of himself that he could be.... aka jamie foxx and not a spineless comic nerd electrician.
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