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"Sommers and McKenna, at various points, wrote versions of the story that incorporated Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy, Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane Watson, and Sally Field’s Aunt May, but ultimately cut all those women when they decided that the story was already overstuffed; the only female characters with significant screen time would be Marisa Tomei’s Aunt May and Zendaya's MJ."

"Because the screenplay was constantly in flux, none of the actors could read a locked script, and they joined the project based on their faith in [Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige], [Producer Amy Pascal], and director Jon Watts."

Here is an early team up idea I did that never happened in No Way Home. I really hope the Vulture returns someday, very happy to have been able to work on that design along with Phil and Ryan. Spider-man suit was designed by Ryan Meinerding.

"Here is another idea I did for the potential Multiverse chase gag in [Spider-Man:] No Way Home. [Doctor Strange] is mistaken for a street performer in [The Amazing Spider-Man 2] Times Square setting."

Very early exploration I did of what Vulture might look like returning in No Way Home - with more traditional weapons integrated. #nowayhome #spiderman #marvel #conceptart

A Vulture take I did for No Way Home that would have him down on his luck working at a junk yard. #marvel #vulture #spiderman #conceptart

"One of the unfortunate things about Spider-Man[: No Way Home] was we shot it in peak COVID times. We shot everything in a studio which meant, I think in the process of making that film, I might have done three days on location. You can feel it in the film, I think."

"When we're walking through New York, they sent a crew to New York to shoot the streets with a motion camera jib. Then they brought that piece of kit back to Atlanta and then they would make on the floor, 'There's an extra here. There's a dog here. There's a sidewalk here.' Then I'd have to map out what I was going to do in a pre-existing shot."

"This is going to make me sound really difficult but I got over it and we figured it out. The camera was moving way slower than Peter Parker would usually walk. Peter Parker's very bubbly, very quick. Everything is about getting from A to B as quickly as possible without thinking and this shot that they had was this really slow, meandering camera angle through New York."

"Peter is supposed to be in a rush to get to Doctor Strange to ask him this question, and I found it really difficult to portray, 'I'm stressed and in a rush...but walking really slowly,' I actually think that shot isn't in the film because it didn't work."

"It's not that I missed it. It felt undone, it felt undone for me, like I imagine you've felt with your version of that. It was just very gratifying, it was very like. Y'know, it's like you're invited to a party and then the party ends slightly prematurely than you wanted it to end, and then you're like, I've gotta reckon with being disinvited to this party."

"It's so funny that it's been prompted by this very... But not funny at all because it's like the three-year-old - one of the first photos of me as a three-year-old is in a Spider-Man costume that my mother made out of felt. So it's f***ing, like, it is primal and I'm like, 'Oh my god this person, this character, it means so f***ing much to me.'"

"But coming back, and Amy Pascal reaching out and asking me about it, it was like, yeah, being re-welcomed to the party. And it could be a party finally because - kind of what you said about Deadpool being more of an adjacent, peripheral, like the more scarce character. There was something so soothing about it being a playpen for the first time, for me and Tobey. The pressure was on Tom [Holland]. Tom had to hold that universe together."

"It was a beautiful thing to genuinely feel like you were a support of a Spider-Brother, and I do mean that sincerely. It was a genuinely lovely. And Jon Watts, such a great director. He was so loose, he was so relaxed. I was like, 'So what are we gonna do about what's on the page? Because we need to work on it.' And he's like, 'Yeah, yeah, we'll work on it.' And it's like, 'Ok, but when?' He's like, 'Well we'll improvise a lot.' And I'm like, 'Great. Great! Really?'"

"It was beautiful. It was suddenly like oh, we have an opportunity that no one's ever had where it's like a Spider-Man support group. What does that look like, let's really go down to the nuts and bolts and the studs—what could that look like? What's the dynamic that we could build that is completely specific and unique to these particular Spider-people."

Steve Weintraub recently moderated a panel with Watts [...], and he asked about how he went about ensuring that Maguire and Garfield’s returns felt organic, and not like cheap fan service

They swing in, they save the day, they leave. I was like, 'I won’t make that. I absolutely refuse to make that.' Just a character showing up for a cameo, being like, 'Hello! Remember me? Okay, see you later.' I was like, 'That’s not going to happen.'"