Andrew Garfield is giving all the details of putting the spandex costume back on and the most “beautiful” moments from set after keeping his Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance a secret long before Spider-Man: No Way Home reached theaters in December 2021.
“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,” Garfield — who initially played the web-slinging superhero in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel — told Variety in an interview published on Thursday, January 6. “But I got this call from [producers] Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige and [director] Jon Watts with this idea. 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.”
Following the aftermath of Mysterio’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) big reveal about Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and his secret identity at the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, the 25-year-old Cherry star enlisted some marvel-ous help to save the world from multiversal villains and to keep his secret safe.
“The pitch was really, really enticing. They said, ‘You played this character in your way and what would you want to explore if you had an opportunity? If you were dumped into this other universe and faced with this younger you and this older you, how will you respond?’ the Tony Award winner, 38, told the outlet about returning to his former role. “We talked a lot about mentorship. We talked a lot about brotherhood and about what it is to be the older brother, younger brother and the middle brother.”
Garfield teased that he would “definitely” be open to playing Peter Parker again “if it felt right.”