Andrew Garfield denies Spider-Man 4 rumors, fuels Spider-Man 4 rumors

I don’t blame The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield for lying through his teeth for two years to preserve the secrecy of his role in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but that level of deception follows a person! To quote Aesop’s finger-wagging moral of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”: “liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.”

In a new interview with GQ UK to promote his new romantic drama We Live in Time, the subject of Spider-Man 4 rumors naturally comes up, and he’s quick to deny it. “I’m gonna disappoint you,” he says. “Yeah, no.”

A few months back in a different legacy men’s magazine in which he was photographed wearing a different set of fuzzy sweaters, Garfield left open the possibility of returning as Spider-Man. The star admitted that his participation in No Way Home “was really healing” and that he would “100 percent come back” if there was a great concept for another movie “or something that hasn’t been done before that’s unique and 
odd and exciting and that you can sink your teeth into [...] I love that character, and it brings joy. If part of what I bring is joy, then I’m joyful in return.”

But in January 2025, Garfield is adamant that nothing is in the works. There is no remote chance of him coming back at this present time, despite Sony really needing movies with Spider-Man to work. He also knows no one will ever totally believe him about anything he says about Spider-Man. Just look at Reddit.

“I know no one’s gonna trust anything I say from now on,” he says in the GQ UK interview, fully aware of the paper trail of deceit he has left scattered across the internet.

After he could finally spill the beans on No Way Home, Garfield relished in the experience of keeping the secret, saying it “felt great” to lie constantly in interviews, a rush akin to planning a surprise birthday party. It’s unclear how he feels now, having carved out a place where he will constantly be asked about Spider-Man forever and ever and never be taken at his word. It can’t be so bad when the day job requires hanging out with Florence Pugh all day, but maybe it feels a little bad.

I hold no grudge against Andrew Garfield for his lies. His time actually playing Spider-Man bought him a lifetime of goodwill. And it put his prankster sensibilities to good use — let’s never forget the ultimate Spider-Man lie, when he showed up to his own San Diego Comic-Con Hall H panel in costume, asking a question. Lie all you want, Andrew Garfield, you earned it.

(Also if he’s in The Amazing Spider-Man 3, that’s technically not appearing in Spider-Man 4…)