Andrew Garfield Explains Why He Decided To Return For Spider-Man: No Way Home
For months before Spider-Man: No Way Home's arrival, there has been discussion that Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire might return. Both actors strongly denied their involvement in the movie. With the movie now in theaters, the cat's out of the bag, and Andrew Garfield revealed why he returned to the character.
Garfield admitted that he did not expect to ever play the character again until he got a phone call: “I wasn’t expecting to ever have a conversation again about potentially playing Peter Parker. I felt very excited to just to be a fan again. But I got this call from Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige and Jon Watts with this idea.”
When he was pitched the concept of the film, Garfield was immediately on board: “It was immediately undeniable. It sounded incredibly fun, incredibly spiritual – trippy and thematically interesting. On a base level, as a Spider-Man fan, just the idea of seeing three Spider-Men in the same frame was enough. The pitch was really, really enticing.”
On what appealed to him about working with the other two Spider-Men, Garfield commented: “We talked a lot about brotherhood and about what it is to be the older brother, younger brother and the middle brother. There’s also a thing of seeing someone you love walking down a path that you’ve already walked down, and you know it doesn’t lead the place where you ultimately meant to go.”
Speaking about the connection that the three of them shared: “That character is isolated in his emotional experience and physical experience. But what happens when that aloneness gets blasted open, and you come to realize that you’ve never been alone and there are other brothers going through the exact same thing? That’s a big spiritual journey to go on, man. And then we just milked out all the fun that we could possibly have.”
Garfield, Holland, and Maguire appear to have had a good time on set and connecting. We appreciate that they were able to spend those experiences together because their connection is truly reflected in the film.
Garfield admitted that he did not expect to ever play the character again until he got a phone call: “I wasn’t expecting to ever have a conversation again about potentially playing Peter Parker. I felt very excited to just to be a fan again. But I got this call from Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige and Jon Watts with this idea.”When he was pitched the concept of the film, Garfield was immediately on board: “It was immediately undeniable. It sounded incredibly fun, incredibly spiritual – trippy and thematically interesting. On a base level, as a Spider-Man fan, just the idea of seeing three Spider-Men in the same frame was enough. The pitch was really, really enticing.”On what appealed to him about working with the other two Spider-Men, Garfield commented: “We talked a lot about brotherhood and about what it is to be the older brother, younger brother and the middle brother. There’s also a thing of seeing someone you love walking down a path that you’ve already walked down, and you know it doesn’t lead the place where you ultimately meant to go.”Speaking about the connection that the three of them shared: “That character is isolated in his emotional experience and physical experience. But what happens when that aloneness gets blasted open, and you come to realize that you’ve never been alone and there are other brothers going through the exact same thing? That’s a big spiritual journey to go on, man. And then we just milked out all the fun that we could possibly have.”
Garfield, Holland, and Maguire appear to have had a good time on set and connecting. We appreciate that they were able to spend those experiences together because their connection is truly reflected in the film.
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