Tom Holland Regrets Not Calling Andrew Garfield After Taking Over As Spider-Man

Tom Holland opened up about his regret in not calling Andrew Garfield when he took over the role of Spider-Man in 2017.

"Something I can look back on now with a little bit of clarity and regret is that I never called him when I took over as Spider-Man," Holland told The Hollywood Reporter, talking about his experience working with the actors who previously played Spider-man. "Had someone said to me after my second movie that I was done and this other kid was taking over, I would've been heartbroken. So looking back, I wish I had the chance to make amends with him, but this film was our opportunity."

Holland said that working with Garfield on “Spider-Man: No Way Home” opened a door for him to make up for a past regret.

"It was not only an opportunity for him to make peace with the character and the studio, but it was also an opportunity for me and him to have this moment where we realize we could share this thing," Holland told the outlet.

"The look on his face when he saves Zendaya [MJ] is totally genuine, and I'm really proud of him," he added.

Holland starred in the latest trilogy of the web-slinging superhero beginning 2017 in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” followed by “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and the latest, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” which has become Sony’s top-grossing movie ever with $644.9 million theatrical sales in December 2021. It also ranks as the sixth biggest film of all time.

Holland, Garfield, and their predecessor, Tobey Maguire came together for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” which also brought together old villains from the previous Spider-Man movies.

Holland also revealed in the interview that the scene where he was supposed to bid farewell to Maguire and Garfield was inspired by a real conversation between them.

“It must have been my close-up or something. It was one that really, really required me to bring the emotion to the shot. So I went up to the two boys on the level that they were standing, and I said to them, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this...Tobey hadn’t acted in nearly 10 years, so we all embraced each other, and we were all crying because it meant so much to us,’ Holland said.

“Jon Watts, Amy Pascal and the writers saw this moment between the three of us ...So essentially, we just reshot that very real moment between the three of us,” he added.