Stone will also appear in Spider-Man, playing the part of Gwen Stacy.

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Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets.

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He is paired with a distracted Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) and, briefly and more entertainingly, with Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard), who looks like a villain waiting to happen.

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Gwen Stacy was the girl Peter loved before any others (despite his dating Betty Brant for a while), and who was eventually at the center of one of the biggest and most famous tragedies in comic book history.

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New to the game are Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a schoolmate with whom he falls in love, and Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), a one-armed scientist who, in an effort to while away those dull days, turns himself into a lizard the size of a plow horse.

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