Emily Zemler
View all posts by Emily Zemler August 12, 2026
Rosario Dawson Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images Rosario Dawson confirmed she filmed a scene as her Daredevil character Claire Temple for Spider-Man: Brand New Day—but it didn’t make the final cut. During an appearance at GalaxyCon in Raleigh, North Carolina, the actress said she was “a reject of Spider-Man.”
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dawson’s character is a nurse who treats injured superheroes. She first appeared in the debut season of Daredevil in 2015, and reprised the role in several subsequent MCU series, including Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
“I even shot a scene in the new Spider-Man movie, but I got cut out,” she told fans during the event. “I told my mom, and she was like, ‘That sucks. Now I can’t post the pictures.’ And I was like, ‘Right mom, me being cut out of the movie that has the largest viewership of a trailer ever, the issue is you can’t post the BTS photos.’”
Dawson explained that Spider-Man means a lot to her because her uncle is a comic book artist and that was the first character he learned how to draw. “There’s a frame in one of the new comics that has a young Spider-Man talking to Daredevil, and they made it so that the young Spider-Man goes to PS19 in the Lower East Side, which is where I went to elementary school,” Dawson said. “So when I tell you my post was already ready with my BTS, with my grandson wearing all his Spider-Man stuff … Then I got the email that was like, ‘Yeah, nah.’”
Dawson described herself as “a reject of Spider-Man,” but said she hopes that one day she might get the chance to be in another film.
