Jimmy Fallon Surprises Zoey Deutch with Unseen Cut Footage of Her in 'Amazing Spider-Man'

Mar. 15, 2025

Zoey Deutchwas in for a surprise afterJimmy Fallonwas able to obtain unseen footage from her one scene in the 2012 Marvel filmTheAmazing Spider-Man.

During an appearance onThe Tonight Show with Jimmy FallonThursday, theNot Okayactress, 27, opened up about the cameo she nabbed in the superhero flick as a teenager.

“I was so excited, and for whatever reason, they used that scene as the teaser at Comic-Con and so people thought I had a big part and kept saying to me like, ‘Oh my God, you’re the star of theAmazing Spider-Man. I didn’t know.’ And I was like, ‘I didn’t either.’ But I went to the theaters and I was cut out of the movie. So it doesn’t really have a happy ending.”

Fortunately, Fallon, 47, told her he had the clip, thanks to his “friends in high places.” Deutch was clearly quite surprised as he played it for her and the audience.

After the clip was shown, Deutch jokingly said, “Wow, that was interesting. CGI has gotten a lot better in the last ten years. And I hope my acting [has] too.”

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Her cut appearance inTheAmazing Spider-Manwould not be the only missed opportunity Deutch would face and bounce back from.

“I screen tested for Katniss but knew I didn’t get it because in the screen test, he was like, ‘Why don’t you read this other part?’ " she said, laughing. “Literally. But, yeah, that one was a little painful.”

Deutch also recalled being onstage at a recent awards show where she presented an honor for best limited series, “and every single one that was nominated, I had auditioned [for] and not gotten.”

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“During thepandemic, there were only, like, four projects that I auditioned for that I really wanted. And all four of them, I was like, ‘And the award goes to … ' " theSet It Upactress said.

“I wanted to be like, ‘And the award doesn’t go to [me]. Don’t worry, if you lose, I lost too. I didn’t get any of these parts!’ " Deutch added.

Meanwhile, during her segment with Fallon, Deutch, whose mother is actress Lea Thompson, went on to reveal that she always knew she wanted to be an actress, and shared her own clip of herself and her mom. Her mother was being interviewed 20 years ago, and when asked if her daughter wanted to follow in her footsteps, a young Deutch answered the question for her.

“I really want to be an actress,” she said.”

“Oh, that’s the first time I heard of that,” Thompson replied. “Because you see it’s so glamorous?” she teasingly asked her daughter since she happened to be getting glammed up during the segment.

“No,” Deutch said smiling. “Well, that’s part of it.”

Not Okayis available to stream on Hulu.

source: people.com