Spider-Man: No Way Home - 13 Fascinating New Details The Writers Just Revealed

4. Garfield Wanted His Peter To Be The Middle Brother

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A dynamic the filmmakers aimed for in portraying all three Peters was to try and give them a brotherly bond.

According to McKenna and Sommers, they wanted Maguire's Peter to be the older brother, "the wise one." Holland's young, inexperienced Peter is obviously the little brother, while Garfield's more angsty webslinger was intended to feel like the middle brother - an angle that the actor "really leaned into":

"That’s one of the things we started saying: 'he is the middle brother!' The middle sibling thing, he feels like he’s not getting the attention of the other two. It works so great for that character. Andrew leaned into middle brother syndrome. 'The baby one is getting all the attention! What about me?'"

We see this a lot throughout the film, with Garfield's Peter even openly admitting that he always wanted brothers, and later telling the Maguire/Holland Spideys that he loves them. Clearly, he feels like they're the siblings he never had.

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