Andrew Garfield, 41, has taken himself out of the running for a rumored fourth Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland. "I'm gonna disappoint you," he told GQ in a new interview published on January 2. "Yeah, no. But I know no one's gonna trust anything I say from now on."
Garfield's reference to not being believed stems from his previous denials that he was in Spider-Man: No Way Home—all of which turned out to be deliberately misleading once he reprised his role as Peter Parker from The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel. Despite shooting down speculation for any imminent return, the actor did lay out conditions that might coax him back into the web-slinger's suit someday: "If it felt in line with my soul and was gonna be fun," he said, joking that he might need the paycheck if he ever has to fund school tuition for his (theoretical) children.
In October, Garfield noted that it would take a "great idea, a great concept" for him to return, something "surprising and odd and fun, joyful," and also "worthwhile." Looking back at No Way Home, he expressed pride in the creative decision to bring multiple Spider-Men together. Meanwhile, Tom Holland has confirmed that his own Spider-Man storyline will continue, announcing that filming on a fourth installment is set to begin next summer. Garfield has recently starred in We Live in Time—his first film since 2021—and will next appear in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt alongside Julia Roberts. Holland, for his part, is gearing up for Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey.