Alex Polidori (@alexpolidori), the voice actor of Tom Holland’s Spiderman, gave us a chat at the end of the symposium he held at the Comicon in Naples in 2024.
Alex’s first approach to Spiderman was through the trilogy with Tobey Maguire, voiced by the very talented Marco Vivio, later replaced by Andrew Garfield and Lorenzo DeAngelis respectively. If you wanted to know the emotions Alex felt in the dubbing room with these two pillars, we have some bad news for you. In Italy, each voice actor records the scenes separately, obviously there are exceptions, but for the most part it is always a long soliloquy. The “three Italian Peters” actually had the opportunity to meet on several occasions, with Alex even confiding in us that he had a WhatsApp group called “The Three Peters” with the other two web-slingers who preceded him.
We at Caffè Nerdiano asked ourselves and asked, what would Alex, a fan of Spiderman, like to see in the next chapter?
“What awaits us, it seems to be more of a Spiderman as we knew him, without too much pomp, armor, super technologies, and without too many interplanetary things. But there is the multiverse, which is not totally resolved… I really like the final costume of No Way Home and I hope that there are many historical villains who return, maybe I would like to see it with Miler Morales…” (Alex dubbed Miles himself in Ultimate Spiderman, the first voice he gave to the wall-crawler).
There are those who claim that Italian dubbing is declining in quality, what is your opinion on this?
“The limits they impose on us do not allow us to work at 100% of our possibilities, to dig into the acting nuances… The rhythms have changed ; if before you could take a month to adapt it, today in a week the product has to be ready”.
For Alex, the shortcomings are due to the excessively frenetic pace: “After the ANAD strike, the voice actors managed to obtain better conditions, and with the new agreements we also managed to obtain better timing. This should remedy the gaps created by the frenzy of today”.
