Andrew Garfield reveals the one scene that 'sold' him on return to Spider-Man

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Andrew Garfield has shared in a recent interview the scene that "sold" him on his return to the Spider-verse in the new movie Spider-Man: No Way Home.

The 38-year-old actor had previously played the titular character in Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man films in 2012 and 2014.

He made his epic return to the franchise with Tobey Maguire, another former Spider-Man actor, as he joined forces with Tom Holland, who currently portrays the webslinger.

Now, in a new interview with Variety, the British-American actor has revealed that there was one particular scene that won his heart and made his decision on whether or not to reprise his role a lot easier.

Garfield told the outlet: "I will say the image of my catching [Zendaya’s] MJ - that was really beautiful and it kind of sold me on the whole thing."

He said: "I wasn’t expecting to ever have a conversation again about potentially playing Peter Parker. I felt very excited to just to be a fan again. But I got this call from Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige and Jon Watts with this idea. It was immediately undeniable.

"It sounded incredibly fun, incredibly spiritual - trippy and thematically interesting. On a base level, as a Spider-Man fan, just the idea of seeing three Spider-Men in the same frame was enough.

“The pitch was really, really enticing. They said, ‘You played this character in your way and what would you want to explore if you had an opportunity? If you were dumped into this other universe and faced with this younger you and this older you, how will you respond?’”

Garfield continued: “We talked a lot about mentorship. We talked a lot about brotherhood and about what it is to be the older brother, younger brother and the middle brother. There’s also a thing of seeing someone you love walking down a path that you’ve already walked down, and you know it doesn’t lead the place where you ultimately meant to go.

“That character is isolated in his emotional experience and physical experience. But what happens when that aloneness gets blasted open, and you come to realize that you’ve never been alone and there are other brothers going through the exact same thing?

"That’s a big spiritual journey to go on, man. And then we just milked out all the fun that we could possibly have.”

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