The script for “Spider-Man: Homecoming” did not contain an LGBT teen character — but that’s what Sony and Marvel wound up with after nearly a year of casting Peter Parker’s classmates.
The same went for a diverse group of actors who rounded out the halls of the Queens high school where Tom Holland’s superhero anxiously spends his days before fighting crime in the streets.
“That’s what made this movie so good and and so cool, it’s inclusive,” actor J.J. Totah, who plays a student named Seymour, told TheWrap.
He’s a pal of Peter Parker and love interest Liz (Laura Harrier), and appears in a scene during gym class where Seymour and his girlfriends are playing a game of “Eff, Marry, Kill” regarding the Avengers.