Spoiler warning: The following article includes elements and plot points from Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Spider-Man: No Way Home hit cinemas around the world a little more than a week before Christmas. What might have been the most anticipated movie in the MCU to date was on the radar of so many Spidey fans, it has already broken the $1 billion barrier at the box office. A movie packed with a boatload of surprises and special moments including the returns of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
Despite being the worst kept secret in MCU history, you may well have let out a little woo or wiped a tear from your eye when Garfied first stepped through that portal. The relief for both actors that they can now speak about it must be huge. In an interview with ET, Garfield revealed he was sitting alongside some of you the first time you saw that moment, and Maguire was right there with him.
“I snuck into a theater on opening night and just watched,” Garfield revealed. “Me and Tobey snuck into a theater together, and no one knew we were there. It was just a really beautiful thing to share together.” Another advantage of living in a society where you need to where a mask. Two years prior and everyone in that cinema would have known who they were.
Since revealing he and Maguire watched No Way Home together with Marvel fans on opening night, a photo seemingly showing the aftermath has emerged online. SpiderlifeOne, who shared the above photo, claims Maguire and Garfield only intended to duck in and stand at the back to see the reaction to their on-screen returns, but they wound up sticking around for the whole movie.
The web-singing future of Garfield, in particular, now remains shrouded in mystery. In the same interview as the one above, Garfield admitted he would be up for doing more Spider-Man stuff if it feels as special as No Way Home did. Fans have already been calling for Sony to make The Amazing Spider-Man 3, and there's even a campaign to reboot Maguire's Spider-Man 4. The sequel was planned but ultimately scrapped in favor of moving forward with Garfield.