“Oh my god”: How on earth did Tom Cruise almost end up in a ‘Spider-Man’ movie?
Through the looking glass.
Spider-Man
“It became what it became”: the role JK Simmons called “ridiculously fun”
It’s the part he became best known for.
“Talk about crushed”: Marisa Tomei and the “iconic character” that left her horrified
She should have done her homework.
Berlin, Spider Man, and the U2 project David Bowie couldn’t stand
“We had a playful sort of banter.”
“I lost a lot of my joy”: the movie that almost broke Tobey Maguire
Took him a while to come to terms with filming.
The “dangerous” role that devastated Andrew Garfield: “I got heartbroken a little bit”
Struggled with the corporate pressures of a huge franchise.
How Spider-Man saved cinema from having two James Bonds at the same time: “Let’s start our own series”
It would have been jarring.
The one scene Tobey Maguire refused to shoot: “You think this is easy, you do it!”
Everybody has their limits.
Andrew Garfield names the world’s greatest living actor: “We’d kneel at the altar”
Has been a huge fan for more than 20 years.