Charlie Cox‘s Daredevil is getting his first standalone project in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the upcoming “Daredevil: Born Again,” but it was 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” that first brought the beloved character into the franchise. Cox popped up as lawyer Matt Murdock in a surprise cameo. He shot his scenes in Atlanta under secrecy, but he decided to take a risk and reach out to his longtime friend and former Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield, as he was heavily rumored to be starring in the movie.
“I got to Atlanta to film ‘Spider-Man.’ I got to this hotel and was getting ready to go out and I texted Andrew Garfield,” Cox said in an interview with Marvel. “I pretty much knew he was in the film because I read all the stuff online. He’s an old friend of mine. I texted him: ‘If the trades are to be believed then we are in the same movie.’ And he’s like: ‘I don’t think so, dude. I’m doing “Spider Man.”‘ So I was like: ‘Yeah, so am I.’ And he replied: ‘You’re not in my script.” Well I’m in my script!”
Garfield, who was secretly returning to the role of Spider-Man for the first time since 2014’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” agreed to go out to dinner with Cox, only for the duo to realize that being seen together in public in Atlanta near the Marvel set would blow the surprise for fans everywhere.
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“We went to go to a restaurant together and we didn’t think about it,” Cox said. “We were just like, ‘Where should we meet?’ and ‘Let’s go here.’ And we showed up to this restaurant. And we walked in. And then we both had this moment of like, ‘Oh… This is not a good look.’ There was a table that had two chairs facing the wall. So we sat facing the wall and tried not to look at each other.”
Garfield screwed up a lot during the making of “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” He previously told Esquire magazine that he ordered DoorDash delivery on his first night in Atlanta and got recognized by the delivery guy.
“And he immediately tweeted, ‘Yeah, I just delivered food to Andrew Garfield in his house. That MF was rude as hell,’” Garfield remembered. “But in fact, all I was trying to do was be like, ‘You’re not allowed to see my face.’ He was asking me for my ID even though I hadn’t ordered alcohol. I’m like, ‘Oh no! Now everyone thinks I’m rude. And they know I’m in Atlanta. I just blew it on multiple levels.’”
Watch Cox’s full interview with Marvel in the video below. “Daredevil: Born Again” premieres March 4 on Disney+.