Andrew Garfield Dishes On The Lightning Bolt Moment That Helped Him Include The Spider-Man Pointing Meme in 'No Way Home'
justjared.comAndrew Garfield is opening up about how the brilliant idea of including the Spider-Man meme came to him for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
During their Deadline conversation, Tom Holland had revealed it was Andrew who had the idea of how to include the meme – which features three Spider-Mans pointing at each other – in the movie. Click inside to read more… “It was so collaborative,” Tom shared about it. “From [Andrew] cracking Tobey’s back to [him] coming up with the idea of pointing at us, it was all stuff that we came up with on the day.
It was just a lot of fun to be able to play with three guys in Spider-Man suits…Sharing it with these boys will be forever one of the most special experiences of my career.” Andrew then explained how the idea hit him. “We were trying to figure out the pointing thing, like how we were going to do the pointing meme in a way — it took us a while — it kind of happened naturally on that scaffolding scene with Peter 1, Peter 2, Peter 3, like all that,” he started. “I remember having a lightning bolt and running into set and telling [director] Jon [Watts], ‘I got it, I got it!’” Andrew continued, “Cause there’s this moment where Jacob [Batalon] is like, ‘Hey Peter?’ and we all go, ‘Yeah?’ But in the script, it was like, that was that.
We all go ‘Yeah?’ and in the script, my Peter says, ‘This isn’t going to get old at all,’ like something kind of sardonic — which felt kind of undercutting.” It was then Andrew started to think of another way to do that, where they had been “thinking I could say, ‘Aw, this is adorable.
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