The last time Michael Mando stepped onto a Spider-Man set, the year was 2016, and the movie was Jon Watts’ Homecoming — Tom Holland’s first standalone Spidey tale. In 2025, the call finally came for Mando to reprise the role of Gargan in Destin Daniel Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day. She has such a natural, kind quality, and I really resonated with her character’s desire to want to save her sister,” Mando says. It’s one of the challenges of any up-and-coming actor out there, and the message that I would give them is that we don’t really know why certain people are cast or not. Lastly, many years from now, what day on Brand New Day will you likely tell your loved ones about first?