While the character's unmasked face was never shown, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse character/costume designer Kris Anka revealed that he used Pedro Pascal as a model for Web-Slinger.
On his Twitter account, Anka was asked what Web-Slinger looked like under his mask, to which Anka replied, "This is honestly kind of a good time to mention that a lot of my time was spent doing drawing overs, or that designs are just based on tweaking previous models. But regarding Web-Slinger, I added a little Pedro Pascal to a Peter [Parker] model." He also included drawovers in his Twitter, the first of which showed Web-Slinger without his mask. This isn't the only interesting fact surrounding a character from Across the Spider-Verse, as prior to the announcement that Andy Samberg would voice Scarlet Spider in it, the identity of the character's actor was kept a secret.
Outside of character tidbits, directors Kemp Powers, Joaquim Dos Santos and Justin Thompson discussed how Across the Spider-Verse addresses the toxic criticism of its protagonist Miles Morales. "Spider-Man definitely is a character that is owned by the audience," Thompson explains. "But some of that audience takes it so seriously and is trying to enforce and restrict. There are people who were rejecting Miles as a character, for their reasons. We wanted to directly to that and almost stick it to that mentality of, 'No, anyone can wear the mask.'"
Tying into this, Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman actor Hailee Steinfeld had talked about how the film would change its predecessor's mantra. Steinfeld commented that if Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was about Miles "learning that anyone can wear the mask," Across the Spider-Verse is about how one wears it, adding that her character is finding out who she is in the movie, too.
As for the upcoming sequel, Beyond the Spider-Verse, one of Across the Spider-Verse's animators, under the alias "Stephen", recently said that the project won't make its March 2024 release date, noting, "There's been progress on the pre-production side of things. But as far as the production side goes, the only progress that's been made on the third one is any exploration or tests that were done before the movie was split into two parts. Everyone’s been fully focused on Across the Spider-Verse and barely crossing the finish line." The animator also remarked that over 100 artists for the latter film quit due to poor working conditions.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is now in theaters.
Source: Twitter