‘I love the ‘destiny’ feeling of the multiverse expanding in this film,’ Garfield says during interview

Spider-Man: No Way Home costars jumped on a video call with Pete Hammond from Deadline to discuss the film in their first joint interview. Much like the film itself, the interview offered the unique perspective of three different generations of web slingers meeting to discuss the character.

The film crossed the $1 billion mark at the box office in just 12 days, beaten out by Marvel’s Infinity War and Endgame. It is also vying for Oscar attention, making it the second comic book movie to do so since Black Panther.

Holland, during the interview, stated that the sentimentality of potentially playing the character for the last time aligned with the theme of goodbye in the film. He credited the success of the movie in part to that connection of emotion. While he knew the film would be a success, he “didn’t think it would be quite as massive as it has been.”

When asked what made the former holders of the Spider-Man title consider rejoining the franchise, Garfield chimed in that he would “follow Tobey to the ends of the earth.” He added that he had the hardest time keeping his role a secret, as he was doing press tours at the time.

Prior to the release of No Way Home, Garfield had been in The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Tick, Tick… Boom! in 2021. He had been questioned in many of the interviews meant to promote those films whether or not he was in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Speaking with Deadline, Garfield said that he treated each interview as a game of Mafia as a means to justify the constant lying.

Meanwhile, Maguire was asked to have a meeting with producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal, but he didn’t know what they possibly could have had in mind at the time. “In that conversation, the intention, the kind of love and celebration of these movies and what it meant, I think, to Amy and Kevin was apparent,” he said. “And to me, when artists or, you know, people who are steering the creative process have a kind of authentic, genuine intent of celebration and love, it just was so apparent in both of them, that, I don’t know, I just wanted to join that. And I’m a big fan of Tom and those movies and Andrew. So, it was definitely intriguing, but yes, I was also going, ‘well, what are we going to do? And that was a bit mysterious.”