11 Actors Who Should Play Spider-Man In Captain America: Civil War

11. Eddie Redmayne

If there's any justice in the world, he will be an Oscar winner by the time Civil War comes around, giving the casting some serious clout. And that genuinely does matter: imagine seeing Spider-Man unmasked and it being an actor with a big profile rather than just a hot young thing - the idea of his decision being catastrophic as well as a romantic statement would matter an awful lot more. Pros He's certainly got the physique: clearly Spidey is never going to be a Tom Hardy-sized monster, and Redmayne has that helpful stringiness. Which is quite apart from the fact that he's genuinely a very good - and crucially, very diverse - actor. Cons He's not American, and there's still quite a bit of dissent levelled at the fact that the UK already has quite a few of the plumb American roles, what with Garfield, Henry Cavill and Billy Elliott all going transatlantic for comic book movies.