![]() “So I said: ‘OK, so you want me to make sure that we get the bigots and the homophobes to buy their tickets?’” Andrew Garfield has been publicly discussing a bisexual Spider-Man for yearsįollowing his Entertainment Weekly comments, Garfield went into more detail about his idea of a queer Spider-Man. “I was then put under a lot of pressure to retract that and apologise for saying something that is a legitimate thing to think and feel. Referencing a since-removed 2013 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said: “There was an interview I gave where I said: ‘Why can’t Peter explore his bisexuality in his next film? Why can’t MJ be a guy?’ ![]() On his time as the superhero, Garfield said: “I worked harder than I’ve ever worked on anything and I’m really proud of it, but I didn’t feel represented.” ![]() In 2015, Marvel Studios and Sony made a deal to share the character rights of Spider-Man and Peter Parker was recast, with Tom Holland taking over the role for 2017’s Spiderman: Homecoming. Garfield, who starred as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 20 respectively, made the comments in an interview with The Independent. Andrew Garfield has said he was “pressured” to apologise for wanting Spider-Man to “explore” being bisexual, so that “bigots” would buy tickets.
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