![]() ![]() “But the thing that is different and will inevitably make it different is that there hasn’t been a Harry Osborn for 10 years. “Look, Harry Osborn has been around for 50 years, and he’s always existed within the Spider-Man universe,” he says. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that we saw James Franco brood as Harry Osborn in Spider-Man 2 and 3.ĭeHaan, naturally, thinks that skepticism is unfounded. It’s also, however, a tantrum that many Spidey fans and filmgoers are wary that they’ve seen before. It truly is an epic temper tantrum, too-the production budget for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 isn’t estimated to be north of $255 million for no reason. Inevitably, he runs into problems in the film that money can’t get him out of for the first time, and that’s when he throws an epic temper tantrum.” So he kind of just glazes over that and relies on the money and power he was born into. He buys expensive cars and expensive clothes and he’s vain, but he has inner turmoil that he’s scared to face. He probably pays a whole lot of money for a haircut that’s probably ridiculous. “He relies on material things to make him happy. “He tries to buy his happiness,” DeHaan says. But there’s something at the root of every evil, and with Harry, that’s a gene passed down from his father that could possibly kill him, and which is responsible for the experimentation that leads to his transformation from innocent teenager to the dastardly Green Goblin. So why is there sympathy for Harry Osborn? Not only does he end up being Spider-Man’s foe, he’s a spoiled rich brat, the heir to a major research corporation-the kind of teen movie twit we’re conditioned to hate. What these movies are doing so well is that they’re honoring the villains as humans, not just bad guys. “We’ve been seeing a lot of people leave this movie becoming Harry and Goblin fans, not just Spider-Man fans. “We get to misbehave and get to go crazy,” DeHaan says, a devious smile curling across his face not too dissimilar from the one The Green Goblin sports in the film’s epic climax. After all, though we all sort of idealize and want to be the superhero in spandex when we’re younger, as we get older, haven’t we learned that it’s the superhero villains that are the most fun? He’s honed a complexity that makes it abundantly clear that, though he had an easier time landing the audition for Peter Parker, he was always destined to be a more interesting Harry Osborn. Subsequent performances in the indies Lawless, The Place Beyond the Pines, and, most recently, Kill Your Darlings (in which he starred opposite Daniel Radcliffe’s Allen Ginsberg as Lucien Carr) earned him billing as a young Leonardo DiCaprio-comparisons that those icy blue eyes, piercing through the kind of baby face that allows a 28-year-old actor to believably play a teenager, certainly support. He starred as tortured teen Jesse on HBO’s therapy drama In Treatment before flying onto the industry’s radar, with the help of some CGI, in the surprise 2012 superhero-esque hit Chronicle. It’s actually a bit baffling that DeHaan wasn’t on the original shortlist for the role, considering how quickly the 28-year-old actor has risen the ranks of Hollywood’s most sought-after young actors. It’s a good thing, too, because DeHaan’s simultaneously sinister and vulnerable performance is the best thing about the The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Luckily, Spidey himself, Andrew Garfield, swung in to lend him a helping hand to get in the door, recommending DeHaan to director Marc Webb after the two hit it off at a play reading. Only this time, he couldn’t even get an audition. And when The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which hit theaters Friday, was casting the pivotal role of Harry Osborn, the troubled childhood friend of Peter Parker who-spoiler, for those who live under a rock-becomes The Green Goblin, DeHaan was clamoring to be a part of the franchise again. ![]()
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