{"id":465341,"date":"2026-02-08T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:02:08","slug":"caleb-mclaughlin-on-wanting-to-play-miles-morales-and-moving-on-from-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465341\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb McLaughlin on Wanting to Play Miles Morales and Moving On From \u2018Stranger Things\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have to love Caleb McLaughlin<\/a> for being so public about wanting to play Miles Morales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to play Miles,\u201d he told me Friday night at the premiere of his new animated movie \u201cGoat<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cStranger Things<\/a>\u201d star has been a fan favorite to slip into the Spider-Man<\/a> suit as Miles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Miles represents something bigger than myself; it represents something bigger than most people,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, being from New York [McLaughlin grew up in the Bronx] and then just seeing the \u201cSpider-Verse\u201d story, I just feel it\u2019s really, really connected and I feel like a lot of people understand what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miles was most recently voiced by Shameik Moore<\/a> in the animated \u201cSpider-Verse\u201d franchise. \u201cSinners<\/a>\u201d star Hailee Steinfeld<\/a> plays Gwen Stacy<\/a>. A third and final \u201cSpider-Verse\u201d is set for release in June 2027.<\/p>\n

McLaughlin\u2019s latest comments come just about a month after speculation that he\u2019s been cast as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You have to love Caleb McLaughlin for being so public about wanting to play Miles Morales. \u201cI would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1975,1976,64,63,447,1977,134,1972,1973,344,44,1974,434,427],"class_list":["post-465341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}