I can’t help but get a chuckle out of the idea of Andrew Garfield studying spiders for his upcoming role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man as this following quote from Garfield surfaced at Hero Complex:
“So I studied spiders, I studied their movements and how they operate in the world and I tried to incorporate as much of that as I could. He’s a boy/spider in terms of how he moves, and not just in the suit. It also shapes the way he interacts with people. A spider is so sensitive; their skin is sensitive to everything. That’s the thing with the spider sense and the way he takes in everything. Imagine all of your skin was as sensitive as a spider, the slightest gust of wind would feel like a tornado going by. You’d always be rushing, that rush. What does that do to you? The idea of how he adjusts to that. And I looked at the idea of having more legs, more arms, and the spacial awareness. A spider moves up, down, side-to-side, all around. He’s not linear and with the knowledge of that spatial awareness and the fact that he can be here and then over there incredibly fast. The stillness of a spider and the lightness I found all of that very interesting to explore as well.”
So is he going to be blowing around in the wind and shivering a bunch all while falling down because he only has four limbs instead of eight?
I’m having an incredibly hard time imagining how Garfield could actually “incorporate” any of these ideas into his performance. A spider is a lot different from a human… or am I missing something?
Perhaps we can learn something from the following interview with Rose McGowan as she discussed her performance in Conan the Barbarian, or what I like to call the worst performance of the year so far. She tells the interviewer she “thought of snakes [*cocky head tilt*]” for her performance as the five-headed Marique. I sure hope Garfield does a little better with his incorporation than McGowan did.
The Amazing Spider-Man will be released in 3D on July 3, 2012. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
