Emma Stone Makes Rare Comment About Working with Ex Andrew Garfield: ‘Special Time in My Life’

Emma Stone will always look back at her time with Andrew Garfield with a smile.

In a sit-down for Vogue‘s Life in Looks published on Thursday, Aug. 14, the actress made a rare comment about working with the actor, whom she met on the set of 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man and dated for four years.

As fans recall, Garfield starred as the titular character of Spider-Man/Peter Parker, while Stone played Gwen Stacy.

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The topic of Garfield came up as Stone began discussing the yellow Versace dress she wore to the premiere of 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in London.

“I mean, I really loved doing Spider-Man. I loved everyone I worked with. I met Andrew there. I met Sally Field and Marc Webb was wonderful. It was really a special time in my life,” the two-time Oscar winner said.

Stone said that the people she was surrounded by while filming made her experience better.

“The recurring theme is the people, more than kind of like the film itself, is what sticks with me for so long,” she said. “And so I have only like the fondest memories of this whole experience.”

The only complaint Stone had regarding her time filming The Amazing Spider-Man movies was the press tours.

“I don’t really know how people do it. I remember it being like nine countries in maybe two weeks, and you’re functioning in a state of jet lag never previously known to you,” she said. “I felt truly psychotic the entire time.”

In past interviews, Garfield has also spoken highly about Stone and working on The Amazing Spider-Man films.

While speaking with Variety in 2021, he said that working on the films was “beautiful” because he “got to meet Emma [Stone] and work with her,” as well as Field.

As for whether he’ll ever step into the world of Spider-Man again, after most recently appearing as the character in the 2021 hit Spider-Man: No Way Home, along with Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland, never say never.

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“I think what it would take is a great idea, a great concept,” Garfield told PEOPLE in October 2024. “Something that is surprising and odd and fun, joyful. It has to be worthwhile.”