Andrew Garfield has renewed his call to see a gay Spider-Man.
In an Entertainment Weekly interview, the star of The Uprising spoke about his resurfaced comments from 2013 calling for a queer spin on Peter Parker, when he famously asked, “Why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?”<\/p>\n
“It was an exercise in rebellion that I felt passionate about,” Garfield doubled down in his latest chat with the outlet. “I just still believe that anyone can be in that suit.”<\/p>\n
Garfield’s first comments on Peter Parker’s sexuality came in the lead-up to his film The Amazing Spider-Man 2 landing in cinemas.<\/p>\n
He reportedly ran the idea by director Marc Webb at the time, suggesting Michael B Jordan for the role of MJ and opining, “He’s so charismatic and talented.”<\/p>\n
While Garfield was – and is – keen on this idea, Marvel reportedly was not. A leaked document found on WikiLeaks and reported by Gawker revealed a list of “character integrity obligations” shared by Marvel with Sony.<\/p>\n
Per this list, Peter Parker must be “Caucasian and heterosexual”, and also must not torture, smoke or abuse alcohol, unless he’s in the “black symbiote suit”.<\/p>\n
Garfield’s next film is the historical action drama The Uprising, which is scheduled for release on 10 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield has renewed his call to see a gay Spider-Man.In an Entertainment Weekly interview, the star of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33071,146,136939,272760,85,46,2079,36894,47152,26820,89343],"class_list":["post-603534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-weekly","tag-garfield","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-marvel","tag-peter","tag-peter-parker","tag-spider-man","tag-the-amazing-spider-man-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}