Tobey Maguire's age shows the full scope of his legacy as Spider-Man as the actor is now older than Willem Dafoe was in the original movie. Tobey Maguire first portrayed the Web-Head in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002, with Maguire's geeky Peter Parker acquiring spider powers from the bite of an experimental arachnid and becoming the superhero known as Spider-Man. Maguire reprised the role twice in 2004's Spider-Man 2 and 2007's Spider-Man 3 before returning along with his Spidey successors Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland in 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home and again through archive footage in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

Maguire's performance as Peter Parker was instrumental in launching the Wall Crawler's big-screen career, with Maguire first introducing Peter as a high school senior nearing graduation. Maguire has just turned 48 years old at writing, 22 years older than he was at the time of filming Spider-Man. Additionally, Willem Dafoe played Norman Osborn a.