Andrew Garfield on Returning to Play Spider-Man and Reveals the Great Scene He Improvised in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

It was so cool to see Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire return as their versions of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home! Everyone is doing press now and talking about their experiences with these characters, so I think it’s safe to actually start to openly talk about this stuff without spoiling it because chances are if you haven’t seen the movie yet, the big surprises have all been spoiled for you already.

In a recent interview with Variety, Garfield opened up about returning to play Spider-Man again after all these years, and how he never thought the opportunity would present itself again. He said:

“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. 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.”

He went on to talk about the idea that Marvel and Sony pitched him saying:

“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?’

“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. 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.

“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 talked about his time shooting the film saying that he was shooting for two weeks with Tobey Maguire. They were on the set together the whole time shooting their scenes. When talking about the impact that his version of Spider-Man had on Tom Holland’s version, the actor explained:

“My Spider-Man got to save his younger brother’s romantic relationship, potentially. And to heal the most traumatic moment of his own life through doing it for his younger brother. Making sure that he didn’t have the same fate, there’s something cosmically beautiful about that. It meant getting a second chance at saving Gwen [Stacy, Garfield’s love interest in “The Amazing Spider-Man. You know, the spirit that Zendaya brings to MJ is so heartfelt and pure and loving, and Emma brought that similar unique spirit to Gwen.”

There was also a moment in the film that Garfield completely improvised. It was the moment where he told the other two Peter Parkers that he loved them. He shared:

“There’s a line I improvised in the movie, looking at [Maguire and Holland] and I tell them I love them. That was just me loving them.”

That was such a wonderful heartwarming moment, and it’s something that the fans and audiences absolutely loved. He goes on to share how grateful he is for the opportunity to return as Spider-Man:

“I am so grateful. I’m just really, really grateful that I got to tie up some loose ends for the Peter that I was playing. I love that character and I’m grateful that I got to work with these incredible actors, this incredible director, and Marvel in conjunction with Sony. It was joyful, and a feeling of closure for me. There was so many unanswered questions for my Peter, where we left it. I got to step back in and get some healing for him. And also really supporting [Holland’s] Peter, and honoring his character completing that trilogy, not distracting or detracting from it.”

Garfield is also certainly open to returning to play the character again! The big question is, will Marvel and Sony actually push to make it happen? We’ll just have to wait and see. I would personally love to see Garfield appear as Spider-Man again in some way. What do you all think?