Andrew Garfield opened up about the iconic ‘meme’ shot that he pulled off with Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland in Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The meme was posted by the official @SpiderManMovie Twitter in February, to promote the digital release on March 15.
The 38-year-old Garfield was promoting his Oscar-nominated tick… tick… BOOM! on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, where he revealed the meme shot was actually shot before he, Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland actually filmed any scenes.
Meme: Andrew Garfield opened up about the iconic ‘meme’ shot that he pulled off with Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland in Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home
Before: The 38-year-old Garfield wore a Richard James suit to promote his Oscar-nominated tick… tick… BOOM! on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, where he revealed the meme shot was actually shot before he, Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland actually filmed any scenes
The original meme dates back to a 1968 episode of the Spider-Man animated series dubbed Double Identity, where a Spider-Man lookalike was on the loose.
Kimmel asked when the meme was shot, with Garfield revealing it was actually the first thing they shot for the movie.
‘Me and Tobey landed on set, they put us in the costumes, and they said, “We’re gonna do the meme really quickly,”‘ Garfield revealed.
Original: The original meme dates back to a 1968 episode of the Spider-Man animated series dubbed Double Identity, where a Spider-Man lookalike was on the loose
First thing: Kimmel asked when the meme was shot, with Garfield revealing it was actually the first thing they shot for the movie
‘That was before we had shot anything. It was literally like, saying hello to Tom, and we’re all in our (suits),’ he added.
Kimmel said, ‘The first time you said hello to Tom you were dressed as Spider-Man?’ which Garfield responded, ‘Yeah, ish, kind of, yeah.’
‘We were all kind of thrown onto a set and told to point at each other. I think we got one good shot and that’s that, cause the rest of the time we were just laughing trying not to stare at each other’s crotches, just comparing bulges,’ Garfield said.
Laughs: ‘We were all kind of thrown onto a set and told to point at each other. I think we got one good shot and that’s that, cause the rest of the time we were just laughing trying not to stare at each other’s crotches, just comparing bulges,’ Garfield said
There was a scene similar to the pointing meme in the movie too, and when Kimmel asked if that was his idea, Garfield said, ‘we were all putting our heads together about it.’
‘We were all like, “Where do we put the meme? Where do we put the meme?” We had a writers room going on between the five or six of us,’ he said, along with Tom, Tobey, director Jon Watts, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon.
‘I just kind of happened to have the Doc Brown “Great Scott!” Eureka moment, I bolted upright and realized where it should be and I ran on to set and I interrupted whatever Jon was shooting and said, “I’ve got the meme! I’ve got the meme!”‘ Garfield revealed.
Writers: ‘We were all like, “Where do we put the meme? Where do we put the meme?” We had a writers room going on between the five or six of us,’ he said, along with Tom, Tobey, director Jon Watts, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon
The scene happened in a lab when, ‘we’re all kind of like saying, is it me Peter? No we’re all Peter, and Jacob is getting frustrated. Yeah it was so much fun.’
Spider-Man: No Way Home became the biggest movie of the ‘pandemic era,’ and also one of the biggest movies of all time at the box office.
It opened with a massive $260.1 million in December – the second biggest debut of all-time behind Avengers: Endgame ($357.1 million) en route to $793.8 million domestic (third biggest of all-time) and $1.878 billion (sixth biggest all-time).
So fun: The scene happened in a lab when, ‘we’re all kind of like saying, is it me Peter? No we’re all Peter, and Jacob is getting frustrated. Yeah it was so much fun’
Huge movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home became the biggest movie of the ‘pandemic era,’ and also one of the biggest movies of all time at the box office