Marisa Tomei won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her role in “My Cousin Vinny,” but like many other actors, she finds herself being typecast in one particular role most of the time.
Tomei, who has become a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by playing Aunt May, a mother figure to Peter Parker, spoke to Collider about her current role as the mother of Pete Davidson‘s character in Judd Apatow‘s “The King of Staten Island,” and her sudden turn to mom characters.
“I really regret starting down this road and I really regret starting to do that,” Tomei said. “I was, you know, talked into it – not this, but I mean just that change – and I really always felt like, ‘Oh, I could play a lot of things.’ Honestly, it’s probably more of a stretch than other things. [Laughs] But, it’s – yeah, I guess I said it all.”
“I think every actor and actress has a lot of dimensions to them and if the scope of what is being written and being made is narrow, and you want to keep working, you do what you can,” she expanded. “I mean, I do. I tried it. It was maybe not the right road, but you know, I do try to make the most of it.”
That being said, the actress has plenty of ideas about the roles she’d like to play, “I mean, even genres that I would love to be in, you know? The femme fatale, and in a noir,” Tomei said. “I still think there are other aspects of even romantic comedies. I really love them, but you know really at a screwball level. There’s so many, many – the breadth of as much as women are, there’s so many roles.” After seeing her role in “Crazy, Stupid, Love” how has no one hired her for more screwball comedies?