In addition to the “hotness,” Tomei brings a fun energy to the younger Aunt May. The actress also revealed to HuffPost that a cut scene would’ve added even more interesting depth to her character and the relationship between her and nephew Peter Parker (Tom Holland).

Tomei first said there were a lot of improvised lines that didn’t make the film, adding, “There were also things in the original, which I signed up for, which weren’t there when we shot it.”

The actress explained that though filming was wonderful, she was disappointed over a cut scene from the original script where her character would’ve also shown some heroism, saving a little girl in trouble.

“There was something going on in the neighborhood, and there was a little girl in distress, and I saved her, and Peter saw me save her, so you kind of saw that he got part of his ethics from her,” she said.

Tomei continued, “Then I come home, and I don’t even tell him that that’s what happened, and, of course, there’s all this stuff that he’s not telling me. So he’s like, ‘How was your day?’ And I’m like, ‘It was fine,’ but really I was shaking inside because of this whole crisis that had happened in the city. I’m kind of fibbing to him, and he’s fibbing to me, and we’re living in this house together, and it was a very interesting setup. I was quite disappointed that wasn’t in there.”

The scene would’ve apparently happened early in the movie and was written out of the initial script, Tomei said.

Even without that Aunt May scene, all that boiling down brought us a “Spider-Man” film that has earned rave reviews, raked in a reported $117 million at the box office in its opening weekend, and is just a friendly, neighborhood good time throughout.