The MCU is notoriously strict about leaks behind-the-scenes, and Spider-Man: No Way Home was one of the tightest. Bringing back Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield was meant to be a surprise for everyone, and Jamie Foxx very nearly spoiled it.
In an interview with Cinema Blend, he reveals that the energy on-set was so good, he almost popped open a livestream. “I almost blew it. Soon as we got on-set and there was all three Spider-Mans,” he recalls. “I was like this [takes phone out] ‘Ah we up here baby, about to go live’, and someone dove on me like I was on fire.”
Given the excitement around getting Holland, Garfield, and Maguire together in the one Spider-Man movie, we can understand Foxx’s impulse. That must’ve been an incredible first day, seeing not only all the spider-people, but all the villains too. Foxx, Alfred Molina, Willem Dafoe, and Rhys Ifans all became MCU characters as well, celebrating the live-action Spidey cohort. Explicitly, this was temporary, but we’ve a multiverse now, so we might see them again.
All the extra cast was a massive boost for the Marvel movie. Spider-Man: No Way Home went on to make $1.9 billion dollars at the box office, delighting fans around the world.
Of course, the big question since has been, what’s next? Peter Parker has been forgotten in that universe, and we still don’t know when Holland’s Spider-Man 4 is. However, we do have Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse on the horizon, another animated movie led by Miles Morales featuring other spider-people from throughout the multiverse.
That should keep everyone full up on their web-slinging. In the meantime, too, you can check Jamie Foxx’s new Netflix movie, Day Shift, in which he fights vampires. Wonder if Garfield and Maguire show up there, too?