Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield in 2014.Photo: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Marvel’s latest Spider-Man film,Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Not evenAndrew Garfield’sAmazing Spider-Mancostar (and former flame)Emma Stoneknew about his involvement inSpider-Man: No Way Home.
The actor appears on the latest episode of Josh Horowitz’sHappy Sad Confusedpodcast, where he talks about his return as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Marvel’s latest offering alongsideTobey Maguireand the franchise’s current heroic headliner,Tom Holland.
Garfield, 38, famously kept hush-hush about his appearance in the film — and that rule extended to Stone, 33, who starred as Peter’s love interest Gwen Stacy in theAmazing Spider-Manfilms.
“Emma kept on texting me. She was like, ‘Are youin this newSpider-Manfilm?’ " Garfield revealed. “And I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ "
“She was like, ‘Shut up. Just tell me.’ I’m like, ‘I honestly don’t know’ — I kept it going, even with her,” theGolden Globewinner continued, laughing. “And then she saw it. She was like, ‘You’re a jerk.’ "
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Garfield and Stone dated for four years after meeting on the set of the 2012 superhero film before breaking up in 2015, following the release of 2014’sThe Amazing Spider-Man 2. They’ve remained friendly in the years since, with Garfield even giving Stone a standing ovation when she won her first Golden Globe in 2017.
“We care about each other so much, and that’s a given, that’s kind of this unconditional thing,” Garfield continued at the time. “There’s so much love between us and so much respect … It’s also been wonderful to have that kind of support for each other.”
TheTick, Tick … Boom!star toldVarietyin an interview in September that making theAmazing Spider-Manfilms “was only beautiful,” in partbecause he “got to meet Emmaand work with her andSally Field,” the latter of whom played Peter’s Aunt May Parker in the movies.
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As for keeping hisNo Way Homerole under wraps, Garfield likened the"stressful” yet “weirdly enjoyable"experience to a game in a recent interview withThe Wrap.
“There were moments where I was like, ‘God, I hate lying.’ I don’t like to lie and I’m not a good liar, but I kept framing it as a game,” he said. “And I kept imagining myself purely as a fan of that character, which is not hard to do.”
Of how he approached the challenge as a fan of Spider-Man, Garfield explained, “I placed myself in that position of, Well, what would I want to know? Would I want to be toyed with? Would I want to be lied to? Would I wantto be kept on my toes guessing? Would I want to discover it when I went to the theater? Would I want to be guessing, guessing, guessing?”
“I would want the actor to do an incredibly good job at convincing me he wasn’t in it,” he continued. “And then I would want to lose my mind in the theater when my instinct was proven right. That’s whatIwould want.”
Spider-Man: No Way Homeis in theaters now.
source: people.com
