Practically a decade after he debuted as Peter Parker in 2012's The Superb Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield lastly returned in a super-secretive position in Spider-Man: No Method Dwelling, with the actor lastly opening up about it.
Whereas there had been rumors about Garfield, 38, and the unique Spider-Man, Tobey Maguire, returning in No Method Dwelling, it was by no means absolutely confirmed till the movie hit theaters on December 17.
The actor spoke with Selection for a wide-ranging interview the place he opened up about his return as Peter Parker with Selection.
Spider-Man: No Method Dwelling is ready within the aftermath of 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Dwelling, the place Peter Parker's (Tom Holland) identification as Spider-Man was revealed.
He went from hero to villain after a video made it seem to be he killed Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), which ends up in Parker looking for assist from Physician Unusual (Benedict Cumberbatch), asking for a spell to make the world overlook he was Spider-Man.
The spell will get botched, which ends up in the "multiverse' opening up and the Peter Parker's from different universes - played by Garfield and Maguire - coming into that world, as they work together to save all of their worlds.
Garfield's two movies - 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man and 2014's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - got a lukewarm reception from fans and critics alike, leading to Sony and Marvel striking a new deal and Tom Holland being cast as the new Spidey.
When asked about why he returned as Peter Parker, Garfield said he never expected to play that character again.
'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,' he said.
'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 added.
He added that the pitch from Feige, Pascall and Watts was 'really enticing,' which including an intriguing question.
'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?"'
Both Maguire and Garfield's Spider-Man characters are much older than Holland's Peter Parker, with 'brotherhood' part of the pitch also.
'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,' he added.
One of the film's most emotional moments was when Garfield's Spider-Man saved MJ (Zendaya), the love interest of Holland's Spider-Man, redeeming himself for not being able to save his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone).
'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,' Garfield said.
The actor added that both he and Maguire filmed on Spider-Man: No Way Home for two weeks.