Actors Who Were Way Too Old for Their Roles

Tobey Maguire in ‘Spider-Man’

Sony Pictures

At this point, we’ve seen the Spider-Man origin story so many times that we know it by heart: lonely high schooler Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gains superpowers. The keyword here is “high schooler.” The MCU got the age pretty close with 19-year-old Tom Holland in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” but not so much with the first bigscreen Spider-Man in 2002. Tobey Maguire was closing in on 27 when the movie premiered.

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