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- Andrew Garfield made his return as Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
- Garfield previously portrayed the character in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
- To prepare for his future as Spider-Man, Garfield says he would get high and recite lines from Tobey Maguire’s movies.
As a result of both his role in Spider-Man: No Way Home and his Academy Award-nominated performance in Netflix’s tick, tick…BOOM!, Andrew Garfield has been doing tons of press in recent months, and as a result, is reminding everyone what a down-to-Earth lad he seems to be.
After spending literal years lying about appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Garfield is now able to speak openly about the role, leading to anecdotes like the one he shared on The Graham Norton Show about getting blazed and reciting lines from the Tobey Maguire-led Spidey flicks.
“He’s my Spider-Man,” Garfield said of Maguire while appearing on The Graham Norton Show. “I would practice his lines in the mirror while I was at drama school. I was very high at the time. “My friend Terry McGinnis would crack up and look at me like ‘Yeah, you’ll never play Spider-Man, Andy.'”And then here we are.
Garfield then detailed how the pair of former and current Spider-Mans snuck into an L.A. theater to sneakily catch the film with regular fans:
“Me and Tobey became friends and we snuck into a theater in Los Angeles on opening weekend and we were just two middle-aged white guys in baseball hats and masks and just kind of absorbed the moment.”
Maybe manifestation does work after all.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently playing in theaters and will hit Starz in the “next six months,” according to a Deadline report from early February.
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