Andrew Garfield used to practice Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man lines stoned

Andrew Garfield revealed more details about how he used to practice Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man lines in drama school.

While we know that Garfield use to smoke weed more regularly, the Amazing Spider-Man actor revealed more about how he would get stoned before practicing lines for Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield had always looked up to Maguire, viewing the actor as “his Spider-Man,” referring to the portrayal that was most attached to his idea of the character.

In a clip from the graham norton show, Garfield explains that while he was in drama school he would stand in front of a mirror and practice the lines he saw Tobey Maguire performing in Spider-Man while going into further detail that, “I was very high at the time,” he said before getting a hearty chuckle in with the rest of the panel.

Garfield says that his friend Terry Mcginnis would crack up before looking at him and saying, “Yeah, you’ll never play Spider-Man Andy.” Andrew Garfield smiled before following this up with a, “and now here we are.”

Garfield continued on about how he and Tobey Maguire, who he looked up to as Spider-Man while growing up, became friends and snuck into a theater for the opening night of Spider-Man: No Way Home as, “two middle-aged white guys in baseball hats and masks.”

This isn’t the first time Andrew Garfield has talked about Spider-Man and weed. During a fan Q and A with GQ Garfield shared more details about his friend Terry McGinnis, getting stoned, and Spider-Man, “Tobey is my favorite, right, because that’s my childhood. I think I watched that first Spider-Man film back-to-back, like, three times with my friend Terry McGinnis,” Garfield said during the Q&A. “And we were just incredibly high. We would, like, do the lines to each other.”

Later in the interview, Garfield recalls “smoking too much weed” when he was a “lost, angsty kid.”

Spider-Man 4 is officially greenlit and talks of a new trilogy coming have happened as well, maybe we will see more of Garfield’s Spidey in the future?

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