If you keep up with every new superhero movie release, you know the reputation Sony’s offshoot Spider-Verse has built. From the “Morbius Morbin Time” wave to the moment people froze frames of Kraven to point out Ariana DeBose’s Calypso CGI face, the list of meme-ready moments keeps growing. At the top of the pile sits Madame Web, a film that might be remembered less for its plot and more for how quickly it became a punchline. Now one of its stars is finally weighing in on the wave of criticism from both fans and reviewers.
French actor Tahar Rahim, who played the Spider-Man-adjacent villain Ezekiel Sims, has seen the conversation from a distance and seems content to keep it that way. In a new interview with Variety, he admitted he has heard plenty about the reaction, even if he has avoided looking at it directly. He explained to the publication:
