The most fascinating performance to emerge from Spider-Man: No Way Home? It was Andrew Garfield’s, by far, and he had the heaviest burden to lift. No, I’m serious. Not only did he have to tell a complete story as the one Peter Parker who never got to finish his trilogy, but Garfield also had to spend MONTHS denying that he was even in the damn movie. And as we saw, he got pretty upset over the constant pestering about Spider-Man when he had two acclaimed films The Eyes of Tammy Faye and tick, tick…BOOM to promote.
Well, it turns out Garfield wasn’t so heated over the Spider-Man questions, after all. Speaking with TheWrap, Garfield admits all of the lying he had to do was sorta fun…
It was stressful, I’m not gonna lie,” Garfield said. “It was rather stressful but also weirdly enjoyable…It was like this massive game of ‘Werewolf’ (think Among Us) that I was playing with journalists and with people guessing, and it was very fun.”
“There were moments where I was like, ‘God, I hate lying.’ I don’t like to lie and I’m not a good liar, but I kept framing it as a game. And I kept imagining myself purely as a fan of that character, which is not hard to do,” Garfield added. “I placed myself in that position of, ‘Well, what would I want to know? Would I want to be toyed with? Would I want to be lied to? Would I want to be kept on my toes guessing? Would I want to discover it when I went to the theater? Would I want to be guessing, guessing, guessing?’”
But in the end it was all worth it, if only for the reactions of the audience who went bonkers at the reveal of Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s return…
“I was happy to do it, but it was a lot of work on everyone’s part. It obviously gave people a big thrill in the theater, and what more do you want from a theater experience than a thrill?…“It’s been a rare experience to play that mass game of ‘Werewolf’ with every single Spider-Man fan in the world. That’s been incredibly fun.”
And he must have really loved it, because now he’s open to even coming back as Spider-Man if the story is right. He tells Variety…
“Yes, definitely open to something if it felt right. Peter and Spider-Man, those characters are all about service, to the greater good and the many. He’s a working-class boy from Queens that knows struggle and loss and is deeply empathetic. I would try to borrow Peter Parker’s ethical framework in that, if there was an opportunity to step back in and tell more of that story, I would have to feel very sure and certain in myself.”
So what do you think? Should Sony finally give Andrew Garfield another chance to complete his Spider-Man trilogy? I’ve always said they jumped the gun by making that deal with Marvel Studios. Now would be the moment to strike while the iron is hot.
