Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield Explains Why He Was Denying His Involvement in ‘No Way Home’

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Now that Spider-Man: No Way Home plays in theaters, all the countless rumors are theories that surfaced prior to the movie’s release now can be put to rest. Still, every fan still remembers how The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield denied several times that he’ll reprise the role in the 27th MCU movie, which, in the end, turned out to be a huge lie.

Although Sony and Marvel Studios tried their best to keep it a top-secret, Garfield’s involvement in the movie leaked during the movie’s production, and although Sony and Marvel remained silent about it, Garfield was asked about it in almost every interview he had before the movie’s release. Garfield said that the leaked image was photoshop, and after he tried to deny it a few more times, Garfield said that he won’t take questions about it anymore. 

Garfield also wasn’t present at the red carpet event for the movie’s premiere, although he revealed that he and co-star Tobey Maguire sneaked into a theater for the screening. Once the movie premiered in theaters worldwide, fans finally saw that Garfield is a part of the movie after all, and now he revealed why he tried to deny his appearance in the movie:

“It was stressful, I’m not gonna lie. It was rather stressful but also weirdly enjoyable. It was like this massive game of Werewolf 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. 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? I would want the actor to do an incredibly good job at convincing me he wasn’t in it. And then I would want to lose my mind in the theater when my instinct was proven right. That’s what I would want.“ — Andrew Garfield for The Wrap

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Andrew Garfield debuted as Spider-Man in Marc Webb’s 2012 movie The Amazing Spider-Man, and he reprised the role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014. Spider-Man: No Way Home marked his third appearance as the web-slinger, and after receiving praise for his performance in No Way Home, many fans started a campaign a social media to make The Amazing Spider-Man 3, because fans believe Garfield deserved to conclude his own Spider-Man trilogy. And so do we.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.