Thomas Haden Church Talks Spider-Man 3

Future Spider-Man baddie Thomas Haden Church spoke recently with the Houston Chronicle about becoming the latest Spidey villain.

"I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague," said Church, who owns up to being single, having a girlfriend and having a daughter, whose name he won't divulge. He will say he owns a home in Dallas that he's leased out, and he prefers beer to wine.

Which beer? He won't say, only that "given my physical training for Spider-Man, they only want me to drink light beer."

Church has been in Los Angeles lately for wardrobe fittings and "being in the mud all day. They did plaster casts of my body for prosthetics. They also wanted to cut my hair to get an idea for (computer) animators (to determine) what my look will be."

He's also mum on whom he'll play when director Sam Raimi starts shooting near year's end. Rumors swirl that Church will be Venom, a classic villain from Spidey comics, or perhaps a new baddie.

He's been training at a gym in Kerrville, and he may make two more movies before Spider-Man 3 starts to roll. He also just did voice work for an animated Charlotte's Web with Julia Roberts and Jennifer (Elektra & Alias) Garner. But Spider-Man 3 is "my biggest commitment so far in budgetary terms. It's pretty huge."

Though the intimate, offbeat Sideways is the opposite of an action film, Church said its writer-director, Alexander Payne, told him his favorite film of last year was Spider-Man 2. Church feels Alfredolina, who played villain Doc Ock, was robbed of an Oscar nod.