In a profile forVanity Fair’s 28th annual Hollywood issue, the 38-year-old actor discusses his respect for hisSpider-Man: No Way Homecostar and fellow friendly neighborhood webslinging predecessor Maguire, 46.
“I was just obsessed with what he was doing,” Garfield said of Maguire’s turn as Peter Parker/Spider-Man inSam Raimi’s original 2000s trilogy.
“I want him to be my older brother/mentor figure and to tell me I’m doing a good job,” he added. “I want to compete with him. I want to better him. I want to rib him, have fun with him.”
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Maguire and Garfield bothreprise their roles as Peter Parker/Spider-Manfrom their respective previous film iterations duringNo Way Home’s second half, in a plot involving multiple Spider-Man universes converging on current starTom Holland’s world.
During a joint video interview with Maguire and Holland, 25, last month, theTick, Tick … Boom!actor said his only requirement for reprising his role as Peter Parker for a multiverse plotline in the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise was that his predecessor be involved too.
“I was justwaiting to see if Tobey was gonna do it, and if Tobey was gonna do it then I was like, ‘Well I have no choice,’ " Garfield said.
“I follow Tobey to the ends of the earth. I’m a lemming for Tobey,” he joked. “But that was sincerely a big part of it when I was approached about it.”
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DirectorJon Wattsspoke toVarietyin January about preparing to film with the only three men who have ever played Spider-Man in thebillion-dollar-making filmthatbroke recordsupon its release.
“We sat on folding chairs in a circle and went through the script together,” said Watts, 40. “I had talked to everyone separately, but to have everyone together to talk about the story, how the pieces fit together and what Spider-Man meant to them — that was exciting for me.”
He continued, “We had the only three actors to ever play Spider-Man in a film, and each had been through so much, on and off screen. Itwas like a Spider-Man therapy session.”
Watts added that he made sure to soak up the moment with the three stars while he could, knowing it was a rare time in cinematic history: “You’re capturing something more than a scene from a movie; you’re watching a once-in-a-lifetime event.”
source: people.com
