While filming “Spider-Man,” Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst started dating, and James Franco, who portrayed Maguire’s frenemy Harry Osborn in the film series, also had a crush on Dunst. Apparently, Franco crushing on Dunst caused a quiet conflict between him and Macguire. “Tobey and Kristen became a couple around that time,” Franco explained to Playboy (via Daily Star). “I had a crush on Kirsten, and I think I was upset about that as well … Tobey was mad at me for a while. By the second film, we were cool.”
The costarring couple kept their romance on the DL, and even their director didn’t know they were dating! In a 2007 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, director Sam Raimi said, “They apparently began dating with each other, I think, in the middle of the first movie … although I didn’t know it at the time,” he explained. Dunst and Maguire broke up before the second “Spider-Man” movie was finished and worked together without a problem on the third movie. “I was concerned they wouldn’t get the same chemistry back, but it was just me worrying,” Raimi said of their split.
Nicki
