Tomei said “There was a moment, where I felt that May - maybe she should just be with a woman because Ben is gone,” which is an interesting idea that would have worked well with this interpretation of Aunt May. According to Tomei, that was her reasoning for arguing for May to have a girlfriend. In the MCU’s Spider-Man, Uncle Ben has been out of the picture for a while, and Aunt May is living a quiet life raising Peter to be the best (Spider) man he can be. In a recent interview, Marisa Tomei revealed she campaigned for Aunt May to be a lesbian in No Way Home, and we kind of have to talk about what a gay Aunt May would have meant in the context of the series. Spider-Man: No Way Home somehow changed a lot with the MCU’s Spider-Man while also keeping him very in-line with the comics, and they almost did the same with May. Good mother, dead husband, endangered child, and she’s nice. There have been many iterations of Aunt May in comics and film, but overall the recipe remains the same. Aunt May is one of the most iconic characters in comics, and she does that by barely even punching anyone.
