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"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" director Marc Webb and producer Matt Tolmach recently revealed in an why they decided to cut out scenes with Mary Jane Watson, played by Shailene Woodley.

In the interview with the Los Angeles Times, Webb said that it was too hard to bring in a different love interest for Peter while Gwen was in the picture.

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"Shailene is a brilliant actress, and she did a great couple days of work. But it was very difficult to introduce someone as a competing love interest when so much is on the table with Peter and Gwen."

Tolmach also agreed with Webb and added that they would end up overdoing it by having scenes with Mary Jane.

"We bit off more than we can chew. We had a superhero opera, and as great as Shailene is, she didn't really co-exist with the bigger story we were telling. You can't have Peter thinking about Gwen every moment and then there's this girl next door who's suddenly there. We weren't ready for it."

After a screening of the first 30 minutes of "TASM2" a month ago, Webb talked to Superhero Hype about various aspects of the film.

Webb was first asked about the usage of classic "Spider-Man" elements like the newspaper, The Daily Bugle, which was used a lot in the film's marketing.

"Obviously, you're going to get a little hint of Norman Osborn in this film. The Daily Bugle is part of it. The big thing that I wanted to nail this time was the suit, you know? I wanted to return to the iconography that we knew from the comic books and the Daily Bugle is an emerging force to be reckoned with," Webb said. "That's one of the fun things about delving into a universe like this. You can take more time with these things. We really did think about this in a longer format. As far as things like the Daily Bugle and Norman Osborn's story, we were very selective about how to tease that out."

Webb was also questioned about Electro, the film's main antagonist, who wants to be needed by the rest of society.

"To understand Electro is to understand Max Dillon, as Jamie [Foxx] has said. Jamie's been a really great component of this and he was a great partner in trying to generate this in the movie. Max Dillon's character has been sort of ignored by the world, forgotten by people," he said. "He's an outcast, much in the way that Peter Parker is an outcast, and he chooses to react to that in a little bit different a way. There is a wonderful pathos that Jamie enables at the beginning of the film. You haven't seen that part yet, but you really feel for him. But there's also a psychosis. There's something mad about him and that eventually gets the better of him."

Another highlight of the interview was Webb explaining his decision to have Peter and Gwen graduate during the film.

"Listen, our actors are getting a little bit older. To play around with that for too long would get to be absurd. We’re also trying to find stations in life and important moments for them to emerge from. We did spend the whole first movie in high school. This is not that much further in their future. To be honest, there’s a thematic resonance with people moving on, with graduation, which felt really potent to us," he said. "The graduation speech was a way to introduce the universe and the themes of the movie in an interesting way and that just felt right. They were getting to that age and it’s about a gradual teasing of information. It felt appropriate to watch that important moment in their lives."

For other highlights check out the rest of the interview HERE.