What Did Andrew Garfield Actually Think About Tom Holland Taking His Place As Spider-Man?

For a few actors, the dream of playing Spider-Man became a dizzying reality, and one of them was Andrew Garfield.

The whole world recognized him thanks to the role of Peter Parker, but unfortunately the dream was short-lived. Today, a few years later, Spider-Man is played by Tom Holland.

Many have forgotten, but The Amazing Spider-Man with Garfield did well at the box office – it grossed $757 million worldwide.

It became the seventh highest grossing movie of 2012 and even beat The Hunger Games and Les Misérables.

But then the second movie was released. A profit of $709 million is not something that makes actors fired. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was the ninth highest grossing movie of 2014 and much less critically successful than its predecessor.

Worst of all, it was outperformed by its direct competitors. Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, even the X-Men were more successful.

Garfield as Spider-Man was on a downward trend, and in case of superhero movies, even dropping a few notches in the charts was unforgivable.

Two years later, Sony made a deal with Marvel to bring Spider-Man into the MCU. Marvel then replaced Garfield with Tom Holland, who was introduced as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War.

Garfield has repeatedly admitted that playing Spider-Man was his dream, as he has been a fan of Peter Parker since childhood.

But how did he react to Tom Holland taking his place? Like a true gentleman, he had nothing but praise:

"[I'm] excited for Tom Holland. I think he's a very emotional, truthful, funny, physical actor […] it all really couldn't be in any better hands. I'm really stoked for it."

Since Tom Holland tried on the Spider-Man costume, Garfield has devoted himself almost exclusively to intellectual and even art-house cinema.

In 2016, he starred in Martin Scorsese 's Silence, in which he played a 17th-century Jesuit priest. In 2017, he played a polio survivor in the biopic Breathe.

Andrew also starred in the movie Under the Silver Lake where his character tried to uncover a conspiracy.

In addition, Garfield was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the movie Tick, Tick… Boom!, where he played the title role.

If the end of Spider-Man is what prompted Garfield to go this way, it's as much a blessing as a curse and perhaps Garfield himself feels the same way.

Source: ComicBookMovie