Andrew Garfield renews call for a gay Spider-Man
Andrew Garfield is doubling down on his decade-old pitch for a queer Spider-Man. Per Variety, the actor reflected on a viral 2013 interview where he questioned why Peter Parker couldn't be gay.
In that original Entertainment Weekly chat, Garfield said he'd joked with producer Matt Tolmach about making Peter's love interest MJ a man. "Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality?" Garfield said at the time, according to both Variety and TheWrap. "Why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?"
He even pitched casting Michael B. Jordan as a male MJ, saying it would bring "interracial bisexuality" to the franchise. Now, on a 2026 press tour for his film "The Uprising," Garfield was asked by EW to revisit those comments.
"It was an exercise in rebellion that I felt passionate about," Garfield said, per the reports. "I just still believe that anyone can be in that suit. That’s the point... you don’t see skin color, you don’t see gender, you don’t see sexuality. Anyone can project themselves into that suit."
TheWrap notes that leaked documents from the Sony hack reportedly outlined Marvel's guidelines that Peter Parker must be "Caucasian and heterosexual." That would have ruled out Garfield's specific pitch, though other queer Spider-characters like Web-Weaver exist in the comics.
