Emma Roberts open to more superhero movies after 'Madame Web'

Madame Web didn't quite scratch Emma Roberts' superhero itch.

In a new interview with ComicBook.com, the actress said she had a great time playing a small supporting role in the Spider-Man spinoff but would still welcome a more expansive part in a future comic book movie.

"I was a civilian in Madame Web," Roberts said. "I loved getting to just pop in and play Peter Parker's mom, and I love the director of that movie [S.J. Clarkson]. I had so much fun. I think that playing comic book characters is so fun. I would love to get the chance to play one that gets a little more action, maybe."

The American Horror Story veteran added, "I would also love to play a witch again — I've seen some witch comic book characters that I would be into."

After a breakout role as the titular teen detective in 2007’s Nancy Drew, Roberts has largely eschewed franchise films, though she did appear in Scream 4 and UglyDolls.

In Madame Web, Roberts portrayed Mary Parker, who is pregnant with the boy who will one day become Spider-Man for the majority of her limited screen time (though Peter is not explicitly named). She's the sister-in-law of Ben Parker (Adam Scott), a.k.a. Uncle Ben, who plays a larger role in the movie as the only friend of protagonist Cassie (Dakota Johnson). Mary goes into labor while staying with Ben, which serves as a critical wrinkle in Cassie's plan to keep three threatened young women hidden at his house.

Elsewhere in the interview, Roberts noted that although she didn't wear a spandex costume in Madame Web, her role was still a heroic one.

"I just got to wear a nine-month pregnant belly," she said. "Again, that is heroic! You don't even know what that's like. And then I had to do it on American Horror Story, for another six months of my life wearing a belly. I should have three kids by now, and I only have one, with the amount of times I've had to be pregnant."

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Other Madame Web cast members have had mixed responses to their time making the movie. Sydney Sweeney noted that the film was a utilitarian "building block" in furthering her career. "It's what allowed me to build a relationship with Sony. Without doing Madame Web I wouldn't have a relationship with the decision-makers over there," she said. "Because I did that, I was able to sell Anyone But You. I was able to get Barbarella."

Johnson described Madame Web less charitably than Roberts and Sweeney did, saying that the film's negative reviews didn't come as a shock.

"I'm not surprised that this has gone down the way it has,' she told Bustle. "I had never done anything like it before. I probably will never do anything like it again because I don't make sense in that world. And I know that now. But sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it's one thing and then as you're making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you're like, 'Wait, what?'"

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