Andrew Garfield Reaffirms Support for Gay Spider-Man Portrayal

Actor Andrew Garfield has reaffirmed his long-held view that the character of Spider-Man could be portrayed as gay, stating that anyone should be able to see themselves behind the iconic mask. The comments, made in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, revisit remarks he first made over a decade ago during the promotion of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Garfield, who played Peter Parker in the 2012 and 2014 Amazing Spider-Man films and appeared in 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home, described his original 2013 suggestion as "an exercise in rebellion.