Andrew Garfield Says Lying About ‘Spider-Man’ Role Was ‘Weirdly Enjoyable’

”It was rather stressful but also weirdly enjoyable,“ the actor tells TheWrap of his repeated lies about
whether he was in the new blockbuster

Steve Pond | January 9, 2022 @ 7:30 AM

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Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” it’s probably too late but you might want
to stop reading.

But if you have seen it, and if you’re enough of a fan to have paid attention to the rumors that were
flying about which actors were making surprise appearances in the blockbuster hit, you probably know
that Andrew Garfield spent a lot of time this fall misleading you and everyone like you by swearing that
he absolutely, positively wasn’t in the movie.

And now that the movie has opened and the secret is out – yes, Garfield is in “No Way Home,” alongside
his fellow Spider-Men Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland – Garfield is not sorry that he lied about it. A
little uncomfortable, maybe, but not sorry.

“It was stressful, I’m not gonna lie,” he told TheWrap this week during an interview about another of his
films, “tick, tick…BOOM!” for an upcoming awards magazine. “It was rather stressful but also weirdly
enjoyable.”

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Garfield compared the experience to playing the party game in which some people in a group are
assigned to be werewolves but must hide that identity from their friends. “It was like this massive game
of Werewolf that I was playing with journalists and with people guessing, and it was very fun,” he said.

“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. And I kept imagining myself purely as a fan of that character, which is not
hard to do.