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A 50-year-old actress will play Aunt May in the new Spiderman, and everyone is grimmed out

50 is the new 75 apparently.

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YESTERDAY IT WAS announced that Academy Award-winning actress Marisa Tomei had been cast as Aunt May in the forthcoming Spiderman reboot.

You know, Aunt May, the traditionally elderly aunt of Peter Parker.

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That role will now be played by 50-year-old.

Just to put that in perspective for you: Aunt May was portrayed by Rosemary Harris (75) and Sally Field (66) in previous incarnations of Spiderman.

And now it’s been played by a 50-year-old.

The news is making everyone feel unbearably old.

I am one year older than the new Aunt May. It's been nice knowing all of you.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) July 8, 2015

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There are some things which make you feel catastrophically old. One is the idea of Marisa Tomei playing Aunt May
— Peter Bradshaw (@PeterBradshaw1) July 8, 2015

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Are you for real, Hollywood?

Marisa Tomei as Aunt May. Burn, Hollywood, burn. https://t.co/0I5s5ulp4J
— Jenni Miller (@msjennimiller) July 8, 2015

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Super inspiring that there are good roles for 50 years old women in Hollywood! Marisa Tomei just landed a part as a 70year Old. #auntmae
— Erica Sigurdson (@Erica_Sigurdson) July 9, 2015

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Marisa Tomei will play Aunt May in the next "Spider-Man" because, as a lovely 50 year old, it was that or play a pile of dust and bones.
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) July 8, 2015

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And Twitter has already begun to imagine possible love interests.

51 year old Marisa Tomei's cast as Aunt May in the new Spider-Man film. Using Hollywood logic, 85 yr old Clint Eastwood will be Uncle Ben...
— Miss L (@ProResting) July 8, 2015

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As well as potential future Aunt Mays.

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Variety headline, 2023: Blake Lively Excited About "Challenge" of Aunt May
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) July 8, 2015

Mark Harris / Twitter

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God bless us all.

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