Disney+ is set to premiere its new Marvel animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on January 29, and the show’s star recently expressed his biggest fear about the show.
Hudson Thames voices Peter Parker in the animated series and, in a new interview, said he was worried the show would “be annoying and woke.”
“I thought it was awesome. I mean, my biggest fear was that it was gonna be annoying and woke, and it wasn’t, and I was like, ‘Yes, this is great, it’s so well written,’ like it feels real,” Thames told Collider. “I’m the oldest of five boys, so I feel like I kind of know what’s happening in their lives and in high school, and it felt like it was doing that justice.”
Merriam-Webster defines “woke” as a person who is “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues, especially
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