Spider-Woman finds her Chinese voice

Zhang, who shot to prominence in the hit online series Go Princess Go, will voice the character of Gwen Stacy, who, in her reality, is the one who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gains superpowers, becoming Spider-Woman.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Zhang’s first animated movie voiceover, so, to improve her dialogue-speaking skills, Zhang trained herself to read a poem every night before falling asleep. She recorded the chants on her smartphone and repeatedly played them back to fine tune her emotion and tone as a voice actress.

As a longtime fan of comic books, Zhang says Spider-Man is one of her favorite comic superheroes and recalled her childhood experience of dressing up in a Spider-Man costume during a recent sneak preview of the film in Beijing, adding that it is like a dream come true to be part of the Spider-Verse.