Andrew Garfield reveals how he, Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, and director Jon Watts designedSpider-Man: No Way Home’s multiversal Spider-Men dynamics with an improvisational approach to their sharedMCUstory.Spider-Man: No Way Homemarks the first MCU appearance for several characters, including Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Men, as well as five of their enemies. Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Men enteredSpider-Man: No Way Home’s plot halfway through, and they became brother-like figures for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker bySpider-Man: No Way Home’s ending, before they returned to their original timelines.
Speaking to Ryan Reynolds in an episode ofVariety’s “Actors on Actors”, Andrew Garfield recalls howSpider-Man: No Way Homedirector Jon Watts allowed the three Spider-Man actors to explore their characters freely, encouraging them to improvise without worrying too much about the script.Garfield describes the experience of working closely with fellow actors Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire as a"Spider-Man support group", delving into the complexities of their respective heroes. Check out Andrew Garfield’s full conversation with fellow Marvel star Ryan Reynolds below:
It was a beautiful thing to genuinely feel like you were a support of a Spider-Brother, and I do mean that sincerely. It was a genuinely lovely. And Jon Watts, such a great director. He was so loose, he was so relaxed. I was like, ‘So what are we gonna do about what’s on the page? Because we need to work on it.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, we’ll work on it.’ And it’s like, ‘Ok, but when?’ He’s like, ‘Well we’ll improvise a lot.’ And I’m like, ‘Great. Great! Really?’ It was beautiful. […] It was suddenly like oh, we have an opportunity that no one’s ever had where it’s like a Spider-Man support group. What does that look like, let’s really go down to the nuts and bolts and the studs—what could that look like? What’s the dynamic that we could build that is completely specific and unique to these particular Spider-people.
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Large Part Of Spider-Man: No Way Home Was Based On Improvisation
Spider-Man: No Way Home’s multiversal Spider-Men displayed a brotherly bond despite not knowing of each other’s existence. These dynamics are so genuine because the same applied to the actors.Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire only got to know each other on set, and they formed a close friendship while filming.Spider-Man: No Way Home’s plot changed drastically due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and the subsequent delays in the MCU’s Phase 4, meaning that Jon Watts andtheSpider-Man: No Way Homecasthad to improvise constantly.
In earlySpider-Man: No Way Homedrafts,Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Men were introduced differently. Apparently, they would have been brought into Earth-616 consciously by an unknown character (probably Doctor Strange).
A big factor in the Spider-Man actors' genuine friendship may have been the high secrecy ofSpider-Man: No Way Home’s production.Spider-Man: No Way Homewas as highly anticipated as MCU crossover events likeAvengers: Infinity WarandAvengers: Endgame, and rumors about all its possible cameos and surprise actor appearances flooded the internet. Hence, Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire may have had to maintain their communication extremely private and develop their characters' own bond with this unique experience as a real-life basis.
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The MCU Shouldn’t Leave The Three Spider-Men’s Friendship Behind
Spider-Man: No Way Home’s ending set up a more grounded sequel for Tom Holland’s Peter Parker, thoughthe MCU’sSpider-Man 4might be heading to a more multiversal-themed plot. IfAvengers: Secret Warsends the possibility of multiversal travel at the end of the Multiverse Saga, thenSpider-Man 4could be the last time all three Spider-Man actors could reunite on the big screen. In that case,Marvel Studios shouldn’t miss its chance to have all threelive-action Spider-Men in the same movieafterSpider-Man: No Way Home.
