It didn’t take much for Andrew Garfield to join Spider-Man: No Way Home.
In fact, the actor said Wednesday that his only requirement for reprising his role as The Amazing Spider-Man’s Peter Parker for a multiverse plotline in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise was that his predecessor be involved too.
“I was just waiting to see if Tobey [Maguire] was gonna do it, and if Tobey was gonna do it then I was like, ‘Well I have no choice,’ ” Garfield said during a joint video interview with Maguire and the MCU’s current webslinger Tom Holland.
“I follow Tobey to the ends of the earth. I’m a lemming for Toby,” he joked, adding: “But that was sincerely a big part of it when I was approached about it.”
Once he began to hear about the story that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and producer Amy Pascal had planned, Garfield said he was even more hooked.
“The intention feels very pure here,” he recalled thinking during his initial meeting. “It feels like a great creative idea and a great creative story. It wasn’t like they were just asking us to come and say ‘Hi’ and then leave again, but have our presence be in service to Tom’s journey and where he is as Peter Parker.”
He admitted, “It exceeded my expectations.”
Garfield didn’t exactly have an easy time keeping the plot of No Way Home under wraps, given his concurrent press tour for his critically acclaimed turn as Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick… Boom!. During several interviews, Garfield denied being part of the latest Spider-Man film.
“I definitely think I had the hardest time,” he said Wednesday, to which both Maguire and Holland agreed. However, Garfield told his fellow spider men that he was able to justify lying “for the sake of that audience reaction.” (People)
