Andrew Garfield Says He Has ‘No Plans’ to Play Spiderman Again
variety.comSasha Urban editorAndrew Garfield isn’t donning the iconic Spiderman suit again any time soon. At least that’s what the “Spider-Man: No Way Home” actor told senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin on Sunday on the red carpet of the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.“No plans, that’s the truth,” Garfield said at Variety On the Carpet presented by DIRECTV. “Everyone’s gonna call me a liar for the rest of my life.
I’m the boy who cried wolf.”Garfield was nominated this year for best male actor in a leading role for his musical turn in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!” Miranda, who opened the show alongside his fellow “Hamilton” stars Leslie Odom Jr.
and Daveed Diggs, recalled Garfield crying wolf when Miranda asked him on set in 2020 whether he was going to play Peter Parker. “To his credit, he never said it to me,” Miranda told Variety. “He always denied it, but I was there the day it leaked.
He was on my set in November when it leaked that he was in talks and I quietly went up to him and said, ‘Bro, are you in the new Spiderman?’ and he went, ‘Shut up, shut up.’ It was the worst acting I’d ever seen him do.
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