Emma Stone recently participated in a Vogue video interview where she ran through her iconic fashion looks over the years. A yellow dress she wore to the 2014 London premiere of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ prompted memories of the highs and lows of playing Gwen Stacy in the short-lived Marvel franchise. The highs were the cast and crew. The lows were the global press tours.
“I really loved doing ‘Spider-Man,’” Stone said. “I loved everybody I worked with. I met Andrew [Garfield] there. I met Sally Field. Marc Webb was wonderful. It was a really special time in my life. That’s a recurring theme: The people more than the film itself is what sticks with me for so long. I only have fond memories of this experience.”
“I will say the press tours for these films… I don’t know how people do it,” She added. “I remember it being nine countries in two weeks. You’re functioning in a state of jet lag previously unknown to you. I felt truly psychotic the entire time. I’m half dead.”
Stone debuted as Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Directed by Marc Webb, the movie served as a reboot for the web-slinger on the big screen after Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire’s original “Spider-Man” trilogy. The trio made a sequel, 2014’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” but the film’s mixed reception resulted in the series’ end and led to Sony striking a deal with Disney’s Marvel Studios to bring a new Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland, into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Garfield returned as the superhero in 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which powered to $1.9 billion at the worldwide box office on the strength of Garfield teaming up with fellow web-slingers Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire. He’s been outspoken since about his interest in coming back for a fourth time.
“It would have to be very weird,” Garfield said at Middle East Film & Comic Con earlier this year. “I would like to do something very strange. Something very unique, and offbeat and surprising, kind of like the creative freedom they have with the animated ‘Spider-Verse’ movies.”
In a separate Esquire interview he added: “For sure, I would 100% come back if it was the right thing, if it’s additive to the culture, if there’s a great concept or something that hasn’t been done before that’s unique and odd and exciting and that you can sink your teeth into. I love that character, and it brings joy. If part of what I bring is joy, then I’m joyful in return.”
Watch Stone’s full interview with Vogue in the video below.
