`SPIDER-MAN 2' JUNE 30.Byline: - Glenn Whipp Alfred Molina has been a big part of small movies (``Prick Up Verb 1. prick up - raise; "The dog pricked up his ears" cock up, prick erect, rear - cause to rise up Your Ears,'' ``Frida'') and a small part of big movies (he was in the opening scene of ``Raiders of the Lost Ark''). And then there's ``Spider-Man 2,'' which is unlike anything else in his long career. ``I remember coming to work one day on the Sony lot and realizing that we were occupying seven or eight soundstages,'' says Molina, calling from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , where he's playing Tevye in a Broadway revival of ``Fiddler on the Roof.'' ``That's when you become aware that you're just a small part of a much, much bigger arrangement.'' British-born Molina is used to making the most of small parts in films, but with ``Spider-Man 2,'' he has the juicy role of lead villain VILLAIN., An epithet used to cast contempt and contumely on the person to whom it is applied. 2. To call a man a villain in a letter written to a third person, will entitle him to an action without proof of special damages. 1 Bos. & Pull. 331. Doctor Octopus
Dr. Otto Octavius, better known as Doctor Octopus or Doc Ock, is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an archenemy of Spider-Man. (or Doc Ock to his friends). Molina's Otto Octavius blames Spider-Man's alter-ego, Peter Parker Peter Parker may refer to:
``Oh yeah, with a villain, you can be a bit more outrageous,'' Molina says. ``There is a greater freedom.'' That said, Molina's own freedom was compromised somewhat by the 75-pound weight of the mechanical tentacles that were attached to his torso torso /tor·so/ (tor´so) trunk (1). tor·so n. pl. tor·sos or tor·si The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk. throughout the shoot. Puppeteers controlled the arms' movements, but Molina wanted his say in the action, too. ``It's just another facet of the character,'' Molina says. ``You use everything you've got.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Alfred Molina is armed and dangerous in ``Spider-Man 2.'' |
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