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

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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.

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Are you for real, Hollywood?

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And Twitter has already begun to imagine possible love interests.

As well as potential future Aunt Mays.

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God bless us all.

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