Tom Holland credits Andrew Garfield with decision to recreate the pointing Spider-Man meme
Andrew Garfield was an agent of improvisational chaos on set
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For many Spider-Man fans, the highlight of Spider-Man: No Way Home was seeing all three on-screen Peter Parkers—Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey McGuire—together, hanging out and bonding in “brotherly” love. One of the funniest moments was when all three Spider-Men pointed at each other, recreating the iconic meme from a 1960s cartoon episode. Holland explained that it was all Garfield’s idea.
The three actors took part in a conversation with Deadline about the making of the film and spoke about how they ended up improvising a lot of the interactions between the three Peters.
“It was so collaborative,” Holland explained. “From [Garfield] cracking Tobey’s back to [him] coming up with the idea of pointing at us, it was all stuff that we came up with on the day. It was just a lot of fun to be able to play with three guys in Spider-Man suits… Sharing it with these boys will be forever one of the most special experiences of my career.”
Holland also talked about how special it’s been to see the movie dominate at the box office and connect with fans. “I mean, I always knew that this film would be loved around the world,” he said. “I didn’t think it would be quite as massive as it has been. One of my favorite things to do at the minute is to go online and watch fans’ reactions to you guys coming in that one scene in particular. I don’t think I could ever have imagined it as being so well received by everyone. I mean, I guess I had an idea that people would love this movie, but in no way, shape or form could I have thought it was going to be as big as it has been.” Right now, it’s the second-highest grossing Marvel movie of all time.
Garfield talked about the reason why he ultimately signed on for the film. “Well, I was just waiting to see if Tobey was going to do it, and if Tobey was going to do it, then I was like, ‘Well, I have no choice,’ you know? I follow Tobey to the ends of the Earth. I’m a lemming for Tobey,” he said. “Getting three Spider-Men together could go one of two ways, and I think it’s a testament to these guys that it went the way that it went, which was a brotherhood, which is just beautiful.”
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I mean, Spider-Verse already did it, but sure.
It points to the crucial part of superhero movies right now, which is the connection between a characters and actors. These long-running franchises have created nostalgia for themselves. The interesting part isn’t “there versions of Spider-Man,” it’s “all three guys who played the part for Sony.” It’s the same reason there’s so much hype around Michael Keaton playing Batman again. And on the flip side, it’s why Robert Downey Jr hasn’t set the box office on fire with his other projects – he’s Iron Man.
RDJ will always be Merivel from Restoration (1995) to me. An underrated film about an underrated period in history — the English mini-Renaissance after Charles II came to power that saw so much innovation in art, science, and medicine.
The other way is an orgy.
Might want to clarify it’s the second highest domestically. Still just a bit behind Infinity War globally. Also, they really did a number on Box Office Mojo after Amazon bought it, didn’t they?
BoxOfficeMojo was fine for a decade after the IMDB/Amazon buyout, but in 2019 they redesigned the whole thing to be way less user-friendly (At least, unless you have an IMDBPro account, I’m assuming.)These days I default to The-Numbers.com for any hobbyist/standard obsessive nerd needs.
Yeah, the site is basically unusable now. Used to be a lot of good information that you can now access for a small monthly fee, and for good measure they ruined the navigation so even the free info is sometimes hard to find. The IMDB wing was also pointlessly chopped up, though not as badly.I can’t wait for when Jimmy Wales dies and Wikipedia gets sold to Microsoft or somesuch, so that all the good the internet has done to make knowledge freely available is finally completely locked up.
You joke, but I’m seriously worried about GitHub. Microsoft left it alone for a while after buying it, but they are slowly making it worse and encourging users to use their own special GitHub version of git rather than the standard. Microsoft is still Microsoft even if it isn’t considered the big villain anymore as compared to Facebook and Google.
Yeah, it won’t be #2 internationally because China has basically banned Marvel ever since Chloe Zhao tweeted about China. Which has basically hinder the international box office for Marvel. Because of Chloe and COVID marvel had the 2nd worse grossing movie and worse review movie.
Marvel did a bunch of digital compositing even before the pandemic, so I was worried they’d film Andrew and Tobey separately.
I’m thankful there were a bunch of scenes where it was clear all three were in the same room and were physically interacting with one another.
Are you sure Garfield was in it?Molina was clearly on vacation in Rio during the entirety of filming.
That was my idea, you’re all welcome.
“I’m a lemming for Tobey”Are you trying to win my affection, Andrew Garfield? First, one of the highlights of No Way Home, now this little gem?
Garfield utterly owned the screen in his scenes. Ran rings round the other two.He really is a top, top actor.
Garfield’s Spider Man has so much middle child energy. Its funny that he automatically assumed he was the worst spider man, even though he didnt even know the other two. (But that might be because he has a low opinion of himself in general, guilt over Gwen Stacey.)
I saw this on opening day in a packed theater and when Garfield and Maguire appeared half the crowd went wildthen a few minutes later there was audibly the sound of a querulous dog when they revealed they had been wandering around for like a day doing god knows what (not the best part of the plotting lol). Where did they sleep? Do their credit cards work?
it had great moments but if you think about them for longer than a second the more insane everything in that movie seems. i liked it a lot but i don’t think i’ll ever watch it again because i think i’ll just tear it to shreds.
Actually, I should make clear that I thought it was great overall. I dunno, logic aside (where it should be to a great extent) the important things were the character arcs, and they even made sure to give Andrew Garfield’s Spidey a character arc, not to mention actually bothering to give one to GG and Doc Ock. The movie was emotionally realistic, which is a lot of why it worked. (SPOILER: I hated them killing Aunt May, just like I hated the Mysterio twist at the end of the last one, but now they have reset back to where he could be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man again…albeit with no money and not a member of the Avengers).
This story is exactly why I never go to theaters on opening nights for movies anymore. I don’t want to hear crowds going wild or commentary from audience members. I want to watch the fucking movie.I find it obnoxious and inconsiderate that people clap, hoot and holler, or loudly speak at all during movies and hate that people glorify it with reaction videos.
it was very brief, they didn’t want to miss any of the dialogue (which paused for a moment there, considerately)…and this particular movie was too damn loud to hear anyone talking, although there was some really interesting back and forth about that Brooklyn theater that shut down recently. It was a black audience theater predominantly and known for people talking back to the screen…but that was difficult to separate from how people have turned into the boring version of wild animals since covid and just have conversations during movies. If it’s a brief surge of applause I’m fine…applause at the end of the movie I find mystifying (unless you’re at a film festival) but whatever…if I go to see a horror movie at that movie theater, or this one I know in midtown, or the Magic Johnson theaters in Baldwin Hills, etc., I’m going there because I love how black audiences participate in horror movies (“RUN B***CH HE’S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!”)…but don’t trip, if you’re answering your phone during the movie you deserve to dieeeeeeee 🙂
That would bug me a lot. Only times I go to theaters nowadays are if someone else wants to (not going to be the wet blanket in a group) or if its an early matinee where I can see the theater is nearly empty.
I mean, when I go to a horror movie at a black theater it’s intentional, like going to see Rocky Horror, and it’s usually a movie like The First Purge (which was a great movie to see in this atmosphere and improved the experience of a mediocre movie a lot), not like Rosemary’s Baby
C’mon…Andrew Garfield was the first person to think that the movie should recreate the most famous meme involving multiple Spider-Men, the meme that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse already (excellently) referenced?