Andrew Garfield revealed exactly how he managed to sneak into a cinema screening of Spider-Man: No Way Home with co-star Tobey Maguire without being seen.
According to Garfield, it was surprisingly easy to watch the movie unnoticed. “If Tobey and I just kind of put on a baseball cap and wear our COVID N-95 masks, we just look like a couple of white guys and that’s kind of that,” he told Sirius XM. “We’re just two other white guys who like Spider-Man and we go and, you know, we get our popcorn, and we hang. It was really that simple. There was no moment where we felt like we were gonna get mobbed. It was really fun. It was kind of a sweet, private, little hang we had. It was surreal.”
The experience was especially sweet for Garfield because his busy work schedule meant this screening with Maguire was his first opportunity to actually see the movie. “I had never seen the film before,” said Garfield. “[Producers] Amy [Pascal] and Kevin Feige had set up a screening for us that I wasn’t able to go to because I was shooting, so Tobey had already seen it. But I hadn’t seen it. So I was seeing it for the first time with him and with an audience and it was just — yeah. One of those moments that you’ll never kind of forget.”
This isn’t the first time that Garfield has spoken of his experience watching the movie with Maguire and a photo of them at the theater in their baseball caps was even posted online. Garfield first played Peter Parker/Spider-Man in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man , but his return in No Way Home marked his first appearance as the Web-Slinger since 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Although rumors of Garfield’s involvement in No Way Home circulated for months before the movie’s release, Garfield did all he could to convince people there was no truth to the stories. This included repeated denials and even lying to his Amazing Spider-Man co-star, Emma Stone. Despite frequent text messages from Stone, Garfield didn’t tell her the truth and said it was “hilarious” to keep his role a secret.
Despite the fun Garfield had keeping his return a secret, the actor confessed that it was also “rather stressful.” He admitted that he hates lying to people and doesn’t consider himself to be a good liar either, but he kept the secret by “framing it as a game.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently in theaters.
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