Spoilers follow for Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Marvel fans were delighted when Spider-Man: No Way Home was released last year and they were treated to not one, not two, but three different versions of their friendly neighborhood superhero. Thanks to some multiverse-spanning shenanigans, the two previous actors to portray the role, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, showed up to assist the MCU’s current Peter Parker (Tom Holland) and remind audiences just how great they are as Spider-Man.
In a recent interview with Seth Meyers, however, Holland revealed that one of his fellow Peters Parker had an extra asset to hand.
“I’ll give you a spoiler,” he said. “And I’m not going to tell you who. But one of us has a fake arse in their suit.”
“You can figure out that for yourselves,” he continued. “I remember being on set and being like ‘wow… oh hang on a minute, that’s not real.'”
Given that around 90 percent of any given Marvel movie is pure CGI, it shouldn’t come as a shock that some parts of our heroes aren’t strictly real either. But the revelation is bound to shake the fandom to its core, despite making a certain amount of sense. Unlike the current Spidey, neither Maguire nor Garfield went shirtless at any point in the film, and it is probably that despite the number of stunts in their cameos, they didn’t have to undergo the same arduous physical transformation and sport the same muscular physique as Holland and other MCU actors.
The obvious fake butt candidate here is Tobey Maguire, the oldest of the three Spider-Man actors. Sure, he got buff for the first movie back in 2002, but he has been pretty absent from the big screen since 2013’s The Great Gatsby (unless we’re counting his voice work in the Boss Baby cinematic universe), taking on more of a producer role instead. While he may have been excited to reprise one of his most popular roles, it’s less feasible that he would have done the full superhero-shred.
Then there’s Garfield. If he was the one wearing the prosthetic backside, then he has been rocking it for almost a decade—fans of his incarnation of Peter Parker will remember the perky Spider-Butt that kept circulating the internet in .GIF form after The Amazing Spider-Man was released. Then again, Garfield was likely filming Tick, Tick… BOOM shortly before or after No Way Home, and he looks pretty gaunt in that movie. Maybe he didn’t have time to do his squats before being secretly spirited away to the MCU green screen where he filmed the majority of his scenes.
The case of who wore the fake arse is not the biggest unanswered question in Marvel Studios canon. But it will probably divide the fandom for years to come all the same.
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