Andrew Garfield was hesitant to return to the world of the MCU with Spider-Man: No Way Home, but the experience proved to be extremely special. In an interview with Esquire, Garfield described his experience working on Spider-Man: No Way Home as “really therapeutic”.
During his interview with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad & Confused podcast, the We Live in Time actor opened up about his time on the set of the 2021 blockbuster and what it meant to him.
When asked if he was nervous about joining the project, Garfield said that neither he nor anyone in the cast were nervous because director Jon Watts was “so confident” as a filmmaker. , It was also against the artists. Garfield recalled, “I was like, ‘Okay, he’s relaxing, it’s interesting, okay.’ “He was like ‘We’ll figure it out'” and that feeling gave the actor a sense of truth and confidence.
Additionally, the Tik Tik Boom actor had several conversations with Watts before the shooting of the film began, where he discussed what he wanted from the film for his character. He didn’t want to do a film if it wasn’t entertaining, therapeutic in some way, and meaningful. He added, “There’s some real reason why we’re all in the same multiverse.”
Garfield wanted there to be destiny and a purpose behind the three Spider-Men sharing the same space, and everyone including Watts, Holland and Maguire were on board with the idea. However, one scene that Garfield felt compelled to film was the one where his character was catching MJ as she fell. It almost felt like a redemption arc for his Spider-Man who missed capturing his universe’s Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) by a small margin and lost her forever.
“The only thing that was set for my character was that I was going to capture MJ and that’s what inspired me to do it. I thought it was too much,” he explained to Horowitz.
Garfield is set to appear on the big screen alongside Dune’s Florence Pugh in John Crowley’s upcoming decade-long romance-drama We Live in Time. The film will be released in select theaters on October 11 and nationwide on October 18.
