Interview: The Amazing Spider-Man’s Rhys Ifans!

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 14 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Rhys Ifans is Dr. Curt Connors, confidant and friend to Peter Parker, in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Ifans is also The Lizard, Spider-Man’s mutated enemy and insidious threat to the city of New York. A difficult dual role, especially considering one was performed in front of a green screen and subsequently transformed into a computer-enhanced monster, but for the actor it was just another day at the office.

In person, Ifans is anything but a stomping, growling beast. (Though he’s no meek scientist, either.) A rather unassuming Welshman with a filmography consisting primarily of UK features, a fair number of them period dramas, Ifans may not immediately profile as a superhero movie villain, but neither did Alfred Molina or Heath Ledger.

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