No Long Hair for the Square! Spider-Man Star Reeve Carney on His 'Lame' Peter Parker Haircut

Super strength. The ability to climb skyscrapers. It must be feel pretty cool to play Spider-Man. Right, Reeve Carney? Yes, except for one element, according to the Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark star. “My haircut is so lame,” the actor told Broadway.com about his newly chopped locks. “It works for Peter Parker, but I have to wear a hat pretty much everywhere I go now,” he said with a laugh.

Carney’s real-life rock star hair almost got in the way of landing in Spidey’s web. “My hair was so long I don’t think she could picture me in the role,” he recalled of working with Spider-Man director Julie Taymor on the recently released Shakespeare film The Tempest, in which he plays Prince Ferdinand. “She kept saying to me, ‘You’re a prince, you’re a prince.'”

Taymor began picturing her prince as Spider-Man in January 2009, when he sang fragments of the musical’s score for composers Bono and The Edge. “They’re really nice guys,” he said of collaborating with the rock icons. “It’s nice to see they’ve been pretty unaffected by all their success.”

Despite his aversion to his character's hairdo, Carney is still able to maintain a level of hipness…thanks to his mother. “She [Marti Heil] is a jewelry designer and does all the jewelry I wear now, which is really cool.” Meanwhile, the rising star is mum on whether he has an offstage Mary Jane Watson: “That’s yet to be determined,” he said with a laugh. Take note, single girls: His hobbies include “going to the movies and cooking breakfast!”