Let’s be real for a sec: The Amazing Spider-Man duology was a bit of a hot mess. It was the cinematic equivalent of trying to build IKEA furniture without the instructions—a lot of frantic scrambling, some weird-looking results, and ultimately, everyone agreed it was probably better to just start over.
But! Like finding a perfectly good meatball in the wreckage of a collapsed Billy bookcase, there were two shining gems in that chaos: Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Their electric, heart-eyes-emoji chemistry as Peter and Gwen is pretty much the only thing everyone agrees on. They were so good, they almost made us forget about the plot with… whatever that was with Peter’s parents and the secret cross-species genetics.
So, does Emma Stone look back on her web-slinging days with regret? In a recent chat with Vogue, she revealed the one part of the superhero life she absolutely could not stan: the absolutely bonkers press tours.
“I will say the press tours for these films…I don’t know how people do it,” Stone admitted, probably while shuddering at a distant memory. “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.”
Nine countries. Two weeks. That’s not a press tour; that’s The Amazing Race if the only challenge was trying to remember which city you’re in and whether you’ve already told the “So, Andrew is really funny…” anecdote to this particular reporter yet. We’d feel psychotic, too.
So, No Regerts?… Er, Regrets?
But fear not, Spidey stans! While the press junkets left her feeling like a zombie with a great blowout, Emma Stone doesn’t actually hate her time as Gwen Stacy. In fact, she looks back on it with a big ol’ smile.
Turns out, the best part wasn’t the spandex or the swinging (though that’s pretty cool), but the people she got to hang with.
“I really loved doing ‘Spider-Man’,” she 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.”
She then dropped some serious wisdom: “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.”
Aww. So, to recap: Making the movies? Great! Promoting the movies across nine time zones in a sleep-deprived haze? A one-way ticket to Psychoticville.
This is actually fantastic news for all the fans who still hold out hope for a cameo in *Spider-Man: No Way Home 2: Even More Way Home*. If her memories are mostly fond, maybe she’d be down to swing by again! She’d probably just demand a much shorter press tour. Maybe just one, very comfy, interview from her couch.
You can revisit the beautiful chaos of Andrew and Emma’s chemistry now that The Amazing Spider-Man films are streaming on Disney+ and Hulu!