Spider-Man Costar Calls Tobey 'An Excellent Dad'

Tobey Maguire (left) and James Franco

Playing Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man series lets James Franco see Tobey Maguire in a different role: dad to 6-month-old daughter Ruby.

"She's a very sweet baby," Franco, 29, told PEOPLE at Monday's New York City premiere of Spider-Man 3. "It's strange, because I've known Tobey about six or seven years, and to see him grow over those years, I'm really proud of him."

Franco continued, "He seems like he's an excellent dad. He's completely consumed with that child."

Rosemary Harris, who plays Spidey's Aunt May, agrees. "[Tobey] seems to be a natural," Harris, 76, told PEOPLE. "He's a kind, loving person." And Ruby, who was born in November, "seems to [be] traveling well. The baby's mother, [Maguire's fiancée] Jennifer Meyer, looks radiant."

The family has traveled together around the world to promote Spider-Man 3. "It's lovely having a baby with you on tour," Harris said. "It's easier at that age, [and] I think it's wonderful that they're bringing Ruby with them."

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In fact, Harris first met Ruby at an airport. "We've been at all these airports – Tokyo, Rome, Berlin, Paris, London – and I forget which one it was, but she was there all dimpled," she said. "She looks like Tobey. She's a happy little baby with her dimples."

Maguire, who recently said he loves being a dad, told PEOPLE he likes traveling with Ruby and Meyer: "You know, it's been great. We've been all over the world, and it's just been great to have my family with me."

Spider-Man’s nemesis to marry porn queen

Spider-Man 3 villain Thomas Haden Church is getting set to say ‘I Do’ to his porn queen fiancée.

The Academy-Award nominated actor, who will soon be seen on the big screen battling superhero Spider-Man when the latest movie hits theatres on May 4, has been well and truly smitten by blue movie beauty Mia Zottoli.

As for his fiancée’s porn past, well though he gets extremely protective of his real-life leading lady, insisting that "That's all in the past”, he also insists that she is the right woman for him."Good life partners are well balanced, dynamic intellectually and romantically.

If someone is right, they're right," the News of the World quoted him, as saying. The couple first met in 2002 when he directed a film called Rolling Kansas.

Zittoli soon asked him out, and they have been together ever since, cementing their relationship with the birth of their daughter Cody, who has now turned 2. "A month later she phoned me and asked me out. It was a very pleasant surprise," he said.

And, now the actor is hoping that his lady love will soon be sporting a wedding ring on her left hand. "I hope the wedding will be sooner rather than later," he said.