After making two "The Amazing Spider-Man" movies, Andrew Garfield is now prepared to hand over the web-slinging duties to the next actor who will portray the role of Peter Parker and his alter-ego.
Garfield recently told Entertainment Tonight that he is excited to relinquish the role so he can simply sit back and enjoy the film.
"I'm just really excited to just be a fan again as opposed to bearing the weight of it," the 31-year-old actor said.
Garfield took over the role of the young science wizard-turn-masked crime fighter from Queens, New York from Tobey Maguire when the first "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie came out in 2012. It was a huge success in the box office and became the seventh-highest grossing movie of the year.
Its sequel, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," was released in 2014, and became the eighth highest grossing movie at that time. Garfield signed up for three films for "The Amazing Spider-Man" franchise, but the deal for the third movie in the trilogy was cancelled after Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios closed a deal in February 2014 that would include Spider-Man in a bigger Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Marvel signed up 19-year-old British actor Tom Holland to take over the Spider-Man costume from Garfield in the upcoming movies in the MCU. He will first appear in the 2016 "Captain America: Civil War" film with the other Marvel superheroes, and his standalone movie will be released in 2017.
When asked about his thoughts about Holland's casting as the next Spider-Man, Garfield said that the young actor can portray the character well.
"Tom Holland is a really, really great actor. He's this incredibly powerful, sensitive, wonderful young actor – and a dancer, so his body is the right [type]," he said. Garfield also mentioned that he was impressed with Holland's work in the film "The Impossible."
Holland was recently spotted in Leipzig, Germany to shoot some of his scenes for the upcoming "Captain America: Civil War" movie.
