{"id":272974,"date":"2026-02-07T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:24:07","slug":"caleb-mclaughlin-on-wanting-to-play-miles-morales-and-moving-on-from-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272974\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb McLaughlin on Wanting to Play Miles Morales and Moving On From \u2018Stranger Things\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to love <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5160895\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb McLaughlin<\/a> for being so public about wanting to play <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6170009\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Morales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to play Miles,\u201d he told me Friday night at the premiere of his new animated movie \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27613895\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goat<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4574334\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stranger Things<\/a>\u201d star has been a fan favorite to slip into the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17532407\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man<\/a> suit as Miles.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>Miles was most recently voiced by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4271336\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shameik Moore<\/a> in the animated \u201cSpider-Verse\u201d franchise. \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinners<\/a>\u201d star <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2794962\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hailee Steinfeld<\/a> plays <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14137252\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gwen Stacy<\/a>. A third and final \u201cSpider-Verse\u201d is set for release in June 2027.<\/p>\n<p>McLaughlin\u2019s latest comments come just about a month after speculation that he\u2019s been cast as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You have to love Caleb McLaughlin for being so public about wanting to play Miles Morales. \u201cI would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-272974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}