10 Great Actors Who Played The Worst Versions Of Characters

10. Sally Field - Aunt May

Spider-Man's Aunt May Parker has been prominently portrayed by four actresses on-screen - each of them supremely talented performers who, on paper, were perfectly cast for the part.

Rosemary Harris brought enormous emotional depth to May in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, while Marisa Tomei gave MCU fans a younger, spunkier iteration, and Lily Tomlin spiritedly voiced another version of her in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Now, nobody's going to come out and blame Academy Award winner Sally Field for botching the role of May in The Amazing Spider-Man films, because of course the fault rests entirely with the series' scripts.

May is written as bafflingly forgettable in both movies, something Field herself even acknowledged in a 2016 Howard Stern interview, where she hilariously said:

"It's really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it. You work it as much as you can, but you can't put ten pounds of s**t in a five-pound bag."

It's tough to argue with that. Field added that she only took the role to honour the film's producer Laura Ziskin - a friend of hers who died from cancer before its release.