SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Star Recalls Their Predecessor's Reaction To Returning As [SPOILER]

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Star Recalls Their Predecessor's Reaction To Returning As [SPOILER]

Spider-Man: No Way Home featured some big returns, and one of those actors has now talked about what it was like seeing their predecessor in action and the experience of sneaking into a theater together...

By JoshWilding - Jan 23, 2022 08:01 AM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home featured the returns of Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire as their respective Peter Parker Variants, and the former has once again been given the chance to speak about that experience. SiriusXM (via ComicBook.com) caught up with the British actor and got some details from him on what it was like to work alongside his predecessor.

"He took a little bit of a sabbatical from acting for a while, much to my dismay, because I'm such a huge fan of him as an actor. He's been focusing on other things and producing and life," Garfield said. "It was so awesome to be able to be present for him being on a film set as an actor again, and especially as that character. I grew up idolizing Tobey in that role and he's such a huge part of that character for me, and just being a fan of him as an actor."

Revealing that they both spent a couple of weeks workshopping what their respective returns and dynamic would look like with director Jon Watts, Garfield recalled it feeling as if "we were kind of two friends making a little Spider-Man short film and going, 'Wouldn't this be cool?' I think he really started to remember his connection to acting as well, his love of it, as if no time had passed."

The actor also talked more about sneaking into a Spider-Man: No Way Home screening with Maguire, revealing that this was actually the first time he got to see the movie. 

"If Tobey and I just kind of put on a baseball cap and wear our Covid N95 masks, we just look like a couple of white guys and that's kind of that. We're just two other white guys who like Spider-Man, and we go and we get our popcorn, and we hang," Garfield said. "I had never seen the film before. Amy [Pascal] and Kevin Feige had set up a screening for us that I wasn't able to go to because I was shooting. Tobey had already seen it, but I hadn't seen it. I was seeing it for the first time with him and with an audience. It was one of those moments that you'll never forget."

That must have been something really special, particularly as we know fans were breaking into cheers and applause when these two returning Spider-Men showed up on screen! The hope is that both Garfield and Maguire will be given the chance to play these characters again at some point, but if this was it, at least both actors managed to swing out on a high. 

You can watch the full interview with Garfield below:
 

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ShamusG
ShamusG - 1/23/2022, 8:32 AM
First for the first time! Loved them all. Need more Andrew STAT!
dragon316
dragon316 - 1/23/2022, 8:46 AM
@ShamusG - for being first rewears billion dollars
IcePyke
IcePyke - 1/23/2022, 9:01 AM
Superspecialawesomeguy
Superspecialawesomeguy - 1/23/2022, 9:04 AM
Imagine growing up being a Spider-Man fan and then watching the new Spidey movie with Tobey-Freaking-Maguire lmao.

connorblaze
connorblaze - 1/23/2022, 9:31 AM
How [frick]ing cool is that Goblin poster? I spent so long thinking that mask was super corny but they actually made it look awesome in its few shots somehow, even though it didnt look like it changed. Gives me mixed feelings because I always thought it should be just Dafoe’s batshit crazy face, and in the end thT was the right choice. But damn that mask has nostalgic value now, and is sort of iconic.

How do you guys think they could bring Dafoe’s Goblin back again and have it make sense, and add something they havent done? I desperately want more of him but feel like it would be courting trouble. I thought they couldnt improve on his fight with Tobey from the first, and then they made him even more brutal and devastating in this one. They couldnt bring him back again because its bound to be less meaningful and dramatic, because they cant make him do anything more devastating than killing May.

Only way it would work is if they brought him back in a ‘prisoner giving advice to stop a greater threat’ way, like Hannibal Lecter. And then having him be behind the greater threat in the end, like he masterminded the main villains, whoever they are.
AC1
AC1 - 1/23/2022, 10:46 AM
@connorblaze - I think they could quite easily bring Willem back as the MCU variant of Norman so that we still get him as the character in an antagonist role without undoing the events of NWH!

Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, NWH never actually says that there isn't a Norman Osborn native to the MCU universe; all that's said is that Oscorp doesn't exist, and someone else lives in his house. While I don't normally pay attention to tie in material (my usual thought is, if it doesn't happen on screen, it doesn't count) but a tie in Daily Bugle article actually mentions that the Norman variant in NWH was actually recognised by some people as a "failed CEO"

What this suggests is that there actually IS an MCU version of Norman, who looks like Willem Dafoe, and that he was once the CEO of Oscorp before it went out of business and he went bankrupt. That could actually be a really great built in motivation for a villainous MCU Norman; basically a version of him who went through similar events to the ones he went through in the Raimi movie, except he actually DID lose his business.

So yeah, he couldn't really top the Goblin we've already seen, but they could take him in a completely different direction (either by having him become the Goblin but have a different dynamic with Spidey, or otherwise go in a different direction and maybe do the whole Dark Avengers/HAMMER thing) while still potentially bringing back Willem Dafoe and getting to benefit from his amazing performance.
AC1
AC1 - 1/23/2022, 10:49 AM
@connorblaze - And actually, adding to my last comment and to your last point about him kind of being a background villain, that could actually be an interesting way of doing a potential Hobgoblin storyline - seeing as in the comics Hobgoblin's introduction had his identity as a mystery with a number of red herrings, in a movie adaptation Norman could be a suspect without actually *being* the Hobgoblin, but could be the one pulling the strings, creating his equipment, etc.
JFerguson
JFerguson - 1/23/2022, 10:20 AM
They were both great in their returns.

Andrew redeemed himself in the eyes of some fans but Tobey is slept on in this movie. His role at least was written well since he was the one who knew they had to convince Tom’s version that they had to cure them all, not to mention he was already actively looking for Tom’s Peter even before Ned portal’d him in.

Also the “it’s what we do” line definitely sounds like something he says to his family of superchildren if we’re headcanon’ing things

Moriakum
Moriakum - 1/23/2022, 11:14 AM
"I had never seen the film before. Amy [Pascal] AND KEVIN FEIGE had set up a screening for us…”
Coleco is about to have a meltdown.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 1/23/2022, 11:21 AM
@Moriakum

Coleco hasn’t been around in a long time. Not sure if he got a different name but as far as I know I haven’t seen him.
Moriakum
Moriakum - 1/23/2022, 12:22 PM
@regularmovieguy - He’s around. His new name is TheHumanSpider or something like that.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 1/23/2022, 12:24 PM
@Moriakum

Haha, no way. I could see that.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 1/23/2022, 12:24 PM
Every time some rando pops up I’m like who is this?

Coleco the name still geeks me out.
JonC
JonC - 1/24/2022, 12:42 PM
I give props to Tobey for playing Parker as he did in this movie. It was just perfect for a character that had gone through what he had... having a love, losing her to your enemy, getting her back, having her threatened villain after villain (much more so than either of the other spidermen)... and having to come to terms with a new normal... still wearing the suit under the everyday clothes all the time... ready to pounce on the bad guys while trying to make his relationship work and be safe... keeping MJ out of the ordeals he had her involved in in the past.
JonC
JonC - 1/24/2022, 12:43 PM
@JonC - by contrast, Holland just left his girl behind and Andrew, well she's dead. Only Tobey has come to terms with his significant other still being in his life and making it work.
Go get 'em tiger.
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