When Andrew Garfield told his multiverse counterparts "I love you guys" in Spider-Man: No Way Home, he genuinely meant it.
Speaking to Variety, Garfield revealed what it was like interacting with Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire on and off-camera in their respective spider-costumes for No Way Home's final act. "We talked about what worked for each of us. Tom was jealous because I have little zippers in my suit that I can get my hands out of very easily. To work his phone, he had to use his nose because he couldn't access his hands," he explained. "We would have deeper conversations, too, and talk about our experiences with the character. And to have Amy Pascal there, who has seen through nine movies, including Spider-Verse. It was a revelatory experience for her, realizing how much life and time she'd given to this character. That was beautiful and profound."
This behind-the-scene chemistry led to Garfield incorporating the "I love you guys" line for a scene where the three Spider-Men decide to start communicating better as a team against their dimensional foes. "There's a line I improvised in the movie, looking at [Maguire and Holland] and I tell them I love them," Garfield said. "That was just me loving them."
Debuting as Peter Parker and his superhero alter ego in 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man, Garfield's storyline would be cut short after its sequel's critical and commercial failure led to Sony canceling future projects. This eventually lead to Sony and Disney collaborating on adding Holland's new Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with 2016's Captain America: Civil War. According to Garfield, what sold him on returning for No Way Home was the scene where his Peter saves MJ (Zendaya) from falling to her death, a scene that heavily mirrored Gwen Stacy's death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
No Way Home concluded Garfield's 2021 filmography list after playing Jonathan Larson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's tick...tick...BOOM! and Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. While the futures of all three live-action Spider-Men remain unclear, Sony is still producing its own Spider-Man-adjacent films like Venom: Let There Be Carnage -- whose mid-credits directly tied into No Way Home and vice versa -- and Morbius, which was recently pushed back to April. Sony and Pascal are also currently working on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), the first of two follow-up sequels to the acclaimed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. In addition to Miles Morales and a spider-powered Gwen Stacy, Across the Spider-Verse will also focus on new characters like Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Man 2099.
Directed by Jon Watts, Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently in theaters.
Source: Variety