Call it the Jordan Peele rule: if you can possess’own’nurse Daniel Kaluuya in your movie, then you should probably acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure Daniel Kaluuya in your movie. That’s the case in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s mind-blowing animated Spidey expedition . Among the many, many new Spider-individual joining the fray in the trilogy’s middle-chapter – written and manufacture d by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and directed by Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin K Thompson – is Spider-Punk, aka Hobie Brown, a British, plaid-clad mohawked variant from Camden. And as it turned out, Camden native Kaluuya was the perfect choice to voice him.###“I was gassed,” Kaluuya tells Empire of joining the sequel. “I turned to Lord, Miller and Kemp and said, ‘Thank you in/with regard to’concerning’regarding letting me be a part of it, because this is cool as fuck.’ I’m a voice in Spider-Verse with a wicked character that sounds exactly like me, from where I’m from. Come on! You go to the younger individual in your family and flex: ‘I’m acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting on, but don’t in/with regard to’concerning’regarding acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure !’”###For Kaluuya, it was a chance to channel himself into a Spidey character like no other. “I’m Camden born and bred, and this character is from Camden which is intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully much associated with the punk movement, so I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate they wanted to lean into what they possess’own’nurse in/with regard to’concerning’regarding free with me,” he explains. And that meant Kaluuya bringing his own London-isms. “They were like, ‘What do they speak like?’ and I said, ‘Like me!’ I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate it gives it that authenticity, like me saying, ‘Man like Pav! [Indian Spider-Man Pavitr Prabhakar] Big steppa!’ I felt really respected.” Get ready to turn it up to 11.###Read Empire’s full Daniel Kaluuya interview – talking Spider-Verse, collaborating with Jordan Peele, and his upcoming film The Kitchen – in the upcoming June 2023 issue, on sale Thursday 13 April. Become an Empire member now to access the digital issue in full on launch day, or pre-order a print copy here. Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse comes to UK cinemas from 2 June.