Andrew Garfield Opens Up About Lying So Well About 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Role

Despite the presence of a troika of web slingers past and present and a bonanza box office, Spider-Man: No Way Home was (basically) nowhere to be found amidst today’s Oscar nominations unveiling.

Andrew Garfield has recalled the ‘generosity’ of his colleagues on The Eyes of Tammy Faye when he had to leave the set to be with his mother in her final days. In a new interview, the Spider-Man: No Way Home star opened up on losing his mum, Lynn, to cancer while he was in the middle of filming in America. At the time, Andrew was shooting biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, where he plays original Televangelist Jim Bakker; he had accepted the role just before Lynn was diagnosed with the illness.

Tom Holland can’t believe just how successful “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has been.

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Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick … Boom!,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home”) and Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.What do Andrew Garfield and Rachel Zegler have in common? To start, they both love the theater, musicals — and each other. “You are in my favorite movie of the year,” Garfield tells 20-year-old Zegler on a recent video conversation about her first film role, as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.”“You are in my favorite movie of the year,” Zegler gushes back to Garfield about his turn as the composer Jonathan Larson in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!” And she’s also a super fan of Garfield’s surprise return to playing Peter Parker in the box office phenomenon “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” a movie that made her sob.

Lin-Manuel Miranda could see right through Andrew Garfield‘s lie!

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Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThere has been media debate whether “Spider-Man: No Way Home” could get a best picture Oscar nomination, since voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have been reluctant to celebrate movies in that genre. But describing this as a superhero movie is like saying “The Godfather” is a gangster film. It IS, but it’s much more.The box-office success proves that the film is hitting a nerve with audiences: They needed this film.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home.By deciding to confide in just his father, mother and brother, Garfield chose to keep the secret as closely held as he could manage – not even confirming his Amazing Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone’s suspicions.Garfield, along with former webslinger Tobey Maguire, appeared in the latest Spider-Man instalment, which sees Tom Holland portray the titular superhero.“I lied to people for a good two years and I lied to the internet for two years, and it felt great,” Garfield told The Ellen DeGeneres Show, adding that only three people in his life besides his agent knew that he was filming.“My dad, my brother, and my mother just kind of us. It was fun to keep it a secret,” Garfield added.

Andrew Garfield is giving fans some insight into his big surprise appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home!

Clayton Davis Sam Raimi, the director of Columbia Pictures’ original “Spider-Man” trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, has spoken out about watching his original cast reprise their roles in last year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”In an exclusive interview with Variety while promoting the Oscar-shortlisted film “You’re Dead Hélène,” a live-action horror short film produced by Raimi, the director discussed seeing Maguire, Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina take up their iconic characters once again.“It was so much fun,” Raimi said. “I love ‘No Way Home’ and the audience I was with went crazy.

Andrew Garfield only trusted three people with the news that he would make his return to the Spider-Man franchise in. During an appearance on Monday's , the 38-year-old actor, who played the web-slinging superhero in two previous Spider-Man films — 2012's and its 2014 sequel -- shares who he let in on his secret.

Andrew Garfield is sharing new details about his big surprise appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home!

Andrew Garfield did a lot of lying in order to keep his his super-secret cameo in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” under wraps.

horror reboot has grossed $42.6 million, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo database.“Spider-Man: No Way Home” remained in second place, after “Scream” knocked it from the top spot on its opening night last week, pulling in $3.5 million in sales on Friday and $710 million to date.Romance flick, “Redeeming Love,” based on a 1991 novel, took third, with $1.5 million in ticket sales on Friday, its opening day.

Some lucky fans got to see the new Spider-Man movie with Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, and they didn’t even know it.