Andrew Garfield has revealed the exclusive list of people he told about his highly-anticipated role in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

The 38-year-old actor's appearance in the last MCU installment may have been one of Hollywood's worst-kept secrets, but Garfield himself was very tight-lipped about the casting.

Seeing Garfield once again reprise his role as Peter Parker alongside Tobey Maguire was potentially the greatest movie moment of 2021. What's more, this wasn't just a fleeting cameo as many die-hard Marvel fans feared it would be, Garfield and Maguire were pivotal to the movie's plot - and the result was once of the greatest instances of fan services ever seen on the big screen.

And despite Garfield repeating shutting down interviewers about his appearance in the movie, there were some people in his inner circle he let in on the secret.

During his recent appearance on Ellen, the host asked Garfield: "Besides your agent, who knew you were doing this?"

To which Garfield said: "My dad, my brother, and my mother at the time... Yeah, just kind of us."

The Amazing Spider-Man star added that he found it very "fun" keeping his involvement in the movie a secret. But once person he didn't let know was his ex-girlfriend and Spider-Man co-star, Emma Stone.

In recent a interview on Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Garfield chatted about his return to the series and explained: "Emma [Stone] kept on texting me. She was like, 'Are you in this new Spider-Man film?'" he said. "And I was like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"

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Stone starred alongside Garfield in both Amazing Spider-Man films, playing his love interest Gwen Stacey. As well as their on-screen romance, the pair dated in real life for four years and remain close friends.

"She was like, 'Shut up. Just tell me.' I'm like, 'I honestly don't know' — I kept it going, even with her," he continued laughing. "And then she saw it. She was like, 'You're a jerk.'"

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And in an interview with The Wrap earlier this month, Garfield also spoke out about lying to his fans for months about his role in No Way Home.

He told the publication: "It was rather stressful but also weirdly enjoyable. It was like this massive game of Werewolf that I was playing with journalists and with people guessing, and it was very fun."

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Andrew Garfield reveals the only people he told about his 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' role