“It was fun to keep it secret.”
Spoilers follow for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
By now, the whole world knows about Andrew Garfield’s cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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But the actor kept the big secret from the whole world for a long time. Well, not the whole world, exactly — some people knew, and he recently revealed to Ellen DeGeneres who got the inside info before the rest of us.
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Garfield revealed that the only three people who he told about his cameo were his parents and brother. Other than that, he kept his lips zipped.
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“I lied to people for a good two years and I lied to the internet for two years and it felt great,” he said. “It was fun to keep it secret.”
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“It felt like I was part of organizing a surprise birthday party for a bunch of people who I knew would appreciate it.”
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As previously revealed, Garfield didn’t even tell his former Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone. “Emma kept on texting me. She was like, ‘Are you in this new Spider-Man film?'” he said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “And I was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.'”
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Watch some of Garfield’s Ellen interview here.
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/andrew-garfield-spider-man-secret