Andrew Garfield had a handful of noteworthy roles to his name before being cast in The Amazing Spider-Man (many of you will likely remember his two-episode stint in Doctor Who, for example), but it was playing the wall-crawler that put him on the map.
His time in the Marvel Universe was shorter than expected as he bid farewell to Peter Parker after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was released in 2014. Before Sony Pictures decided to team up with Marvel Studios and recast the character, Garfield has been eyed to star in two more solo outings, Sinister Six, and possibly even Venom.
The actor was recently on hand for the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia and reflected on both the experience of playing Peter Parker and how it felt to be brought back into the fold for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
"I’ve loved Spider-Man since I was three years old," he explained. "I was in the gym a lot. I ate soup and berries. I trained at Parkour and yoga. I helped with the script. I need to nourish that child who is out there watching."
"I think until all three of us were in the room rehearsing, figuring out what we were going to do, there was no way of writing it," Garfield said of teaming up with Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland. "Every single one of us had our own version of that character and we didn’t know how they were going to interact, until they were actually interacting in the room together."
"So it was as if you were making a low-budget short film with friends. And it was the biggest movie in the history of movies." As for whether he ever gets upset about people preferring other versions of Spider-Man over his, Garfield joked, "I’m 40 years old. If you love me, fine, and if you don’t love me, it’s your loss."
Rumour has it Garfield will return as Spider-Man in one of the upcoming Avengers movies. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is another likely possibility and there are still rumblings that Sony might make some version of The Amazing Spider-Man 3.
"I mean, yes, definitely open to something if it felt right," Garfield said earlier this year of a possible return as Spider-Man. "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."
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