Mary Egida Rivera, the actress who played Ned Leeds’ grandmother in Spider-Man: No Way Home, has died aged 82.
Rivera acted opposite Jacob Batalon in the 2021 film as his character’s Lola, the Filipino word for grandmother, and was said to have been “very proud” of her appearance.
According to her obituary, she died “peacefully” on 15 April in Honolulu, Hawaii.
She is survived by her husband Alejandro Rivera, four children, 11 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Rivera appeared in one of the most memorable scenes from the third film in the Tom Holland superhero franchise, when Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker emerges from the multiverse and meets Ned and Zendaya’s MJ to help them save their universe’s Spider-Man.
The two best friends ask him to climb across the ceiling to prove that he really is Spider-Man, before Lola cuts in and asks him to clean a cobweb from a hard-to-reach corner of the room.
As Ned and MJ try to find their own Peter Parker, Tobey Maguire, who played the superhero in the original 2000s’ films, also appears and joins the gang.
The film was followed by the recently released Spider-Man: Brand New Day, in which Holland, Zendaya, and Batalon reprised their roles.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day debuted with $932 million at the global box office, making it the second biggest opening weekend of all time.
Source: Press Association