Andrew Garfield has admitted he’s yet to congratulate Tom Holland on the incredible success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and still hasn’t seen the movie.
Asked by Variety whether he had checked in with his fellow Spider-bro following Brand New Day’s astonishing $2.3 billion box office bonanza, Garfield said he had not, and added that he didn’t want his praise to be “disingenuous.”
“I don’t want to be disingenuous,” Garfield said. “A movie making money and people going to see it is an incredible thing, but I will reach out to him once I’ve seen the movie, which I’m very excited to see. And his other film, The Odyssey, I haven’t managed to see either yet. I will send him a message when I see the work he has done.”
Hopefully the two blockbusters meet Garfield’s expectations whenever he does get around to watching them.
Meanwhile, Holland is having arguably the biggest year of his career so far, with Brand New Day breaking franchise records and now the highest-grossing film of the year so far. And, of course, it comes just after his role in Christopher Nolan’s widely-praised The Odyssey, which itself has passed the $1.5 billion box office mark.
Garfield will soon be back on the big screen himself in The Uprising, a film about the 1381 Peasant’s Revolt in England (which, amusingly, also stars Tom Hollander). With just a week from launch, there’s been notable confusion over whether the movie is a Robin Hood origin tale or not, with U.S. and U.K. distribution companies seemingly at odds with each other on how to market the movie.
During the same interview, Garfield was asked the inevitable question of whether he would appear alongside the many dozens of other Marvel actors in Avengers: Doomsday. There have been strong rumors that Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man may put in another appearance, and the end of Doomsday appeared to suggest another Spider-Man could appear in an intergalactic (or multiversal) setting.
“No, no, I’m not. I’m not. I’m not,” was Garfield’s response. “You’ll find out, I suppose, one way or the other.”
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