Miss Spider is one of the deuteragonists from James and the Giant Peach.
Miss Spider is voiced by Susan Sarandon in the movie.
Background[]
Physical Appearance[]
Miss Spider is a beautiful eight-legged spider with short black hair, two golden eyes on each side, and very thin eyebrows. She wears a blue beret, a blue scarf, long black gloves and black high-heeled boots on each leg.
Miss Spider also speaks in a French accent.
Personality[]
Miss Spider is a beautiful, kind, soft-spoken, brave, tough, feisty, strong, and confident creature who becomes a mother figure to James who had just saved her from being killed by his cruel aunts. She was a loner as she initially "preferred to be alone", but she later warms up to the other bugs, etc. She is the love interest of Mr. Centipede.
Relationships[]
Mr. Centipede[]
In the movie, Miss Spider and Mr. Centipede are like Dog and Cat, though they show to have feelings for each other. This is shown when Miss Spider kisses Centipede on the cheek which results in him blushing and smiling after the pirate battle. Another example is when the two are dancing together when along with Mr. Grasshopper are singing "Family".
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Trivia[]
- Miss Spider's love interest is Mr. Centipede, who often tries her patience. But as the movie goes down, she soon falls in love with him.
- Unlike her counterpart in the book, Miss Spider is shown to be a mother to James as the story progresses. They share a very important scene together in the middle of the film where she tucks him into bed using her string. This scene shows her to be loving and caring towards James, even going so far as to comfort him and kiss him on the forehead goodnight. It is a major scene that addresses her arc in the film.
- During the set of when Miss Spider is normal-sized, Paul Terry (who played James) got bitten by the spider. A rumor was started that he never acted again after this, but in truth Paul Terry would later star in four seasons of the BBC/Disney Channel children's sitcom Microsoap and joined the band Glassapple as its bass guitarist before settling down to become a mathematics teacher and aspiring novelist.
- She is one of the few female Disney characters to be seen smoking a cigar (though she actually borrowed it from Mr. Centipede).
- In the book, she, along with the Silkworm (a character in the book), set up a factory to make ropes for tightrope walkers in New York City.
- Her name is also similar to Miss Spider from David Kirk's Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends.
- In the novel, she is described as decent and friendly.
- In the movie adaption, she tends to keep to herself at times, but she has a motherly relationship with James Henry Trotter due to him saving her from his aunts as they hate spiders. She also has a French accent.
- It is heard that Miss Spider has a French accent