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Every person who had been a fan of Spider-Man since Tobey Maguire played the superhero in the early 2000s was overjoyed while watching Spider-Man: No Way Home. Many actors from the original Spider-Man film returned to play opposite Tom Holland, who has been a fan of Spidey since he was a kid.

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Tom Holland and Willem Dafoe faced off in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

Peter Parker, played by Tom Holland, and Doctor Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, accidentally tore open the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home. As a result, heroes and villains from other universes crossed over to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, played by Willem Dafoe.

Dafoe originally played the iconic villain in Spider-Man. Fans and critics alike praised the actor for his performance in the superhero film, and when he returned almost 20 years later, it was like no time had passed at all.

Dafoe seamlessly slipped back into the duality of Osborn and Green Goblin in Spider-Man: No Way Home. And the actor performed many of his fight scenes himself. Dafoe mainly faced off against Tom Holland in the MCU Spider-Man movie. And the British actor was more than pleased to work with one of his childhood heroes.

Tom Holland revealed what it was like to fight Willem Dafoe in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

One of the Spider-Man: No Way Home special features details Willem Dafoe’s return as Green Goblin. And Tom Holland shared his experience of filming fight scenes with the veteran Spider-Man actor.

“It’s one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had in my life,” Holland explained. “When he becomes the Goblin, he is terrifying. And in the rehearsal, he starts doing the laugh, and he’s saying all this different stuff about how much he hates Peter Parker. And we’re doing this fight scene, and I just became, like, a five-year-old kid again, watching him in the theater.”

Tom Holland was only five years old when Spider-Man premiered in 2002. So the fact that now, as a 25-year-old, he got to fight Green Goblin must have been a career-defining moment.

Jamie Foxx and Andrew Garfield praise Willem Dafoe’s work

During the Spider-Man: No Way Home special features, Tom Holland was not the only one to praise Willem Dafoe’s performance. Jamie Foxx, who played Electro, and Andrew Garfield, who played Peter Parker, also celebrated the actor’s work as Green Goblin.

“Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, is just like, I mean, to see him work while we’re on the set …” Foxx said. “And that cackle, I was like, “Oh.” I mean, that’s real. You know, I forgot I was in the movie. I’m sitting there with my popcorn like, “This motherf**ker is good.”

Garfield added, “Willem is just fearless. And Willem doesn’t give a flying whatever. ‘I’m doing this.’ He’s just like so un-self-conscious as an actor. Just totally free, and that’s the dream.”

Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available to own on Digital, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD.

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Willem Dafoe returned as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in Spider-Man: No Way Home 19 years after he originally played the character. Dafoe was one of the highlights of the film, with some fans referring to the actor as the best Marvel Cinematic Universe villain yet. Now, the actor's No Way Home co-star Andrew Garfield, has come out in praise of Dafoe's performance. In a new featurette from the film, Garfield commends the Green Goblin actor on his approach. You can check it out down below.

"Willem is just fearless, and Willem doesn't give a flying whatever. 'I'm doing this,'" Garfield said. "He's just like, so un-self-conscious as an actor, just totally free, and that's the dream."

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Dafoe returns to the role that he played when he was about 46 years old, and it seems that he wanted it to be very authentic. The actor had one stipulation before signing on to reprise his Green Goblin role– he wanted to do all of his own stunts. In a previous interview with Murderville the Spider-Man star broke down how he came aboard No Way Home.

"To do this physical stuff was important to me," Dafoe said. "In fact, one of the first things I said to Jon [Watts] and Amy [Pascal], basically when they pitched it to me before there was even a script was, ''listen, I don't want to just pop in there as a cameo or just fill in in close-ups. I want to do the action because that's fun for me.' Also, it's really impossible to add any integrity or any fun to the character if you don't participate in these things. Because all of that action stuff informs your relationships to the characters and the story. It makes you earn your right to play the character, in a funny way."

In Spider-Man: No Way Home, for the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange, the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man. The film stars Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire, J.K. Simmons, Jamie Foxx, Alfred Molina, Thomas Haden Church, Rhys Ifans and Willem Dafoe.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available on 4K, Blu Ray, and digital download!

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Screen Rant released a behind-the-scenes look at the first fight between Tom Holland's Spider-Man and Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin from the set of Spider-Man: No Way Home. This featured interviews from the film's crew sharing their excitement for this sequence.

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Tom Holland found Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin terrifying while filming Spider-Man: No Way Home's most brutal fight scene. Holland admitted to finding his Marvel Cinematic Universe colleague ” so scary” during a behind the scenes snippet on the recently released No Way Home Blu-Ray.

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Speaking recently to Cinema Blend, Jamie Foxx discussed his return as Electro in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The interviewers brought up Foxx's post to Instagram that spoiled his return and got the rumor mill spinning about the presence of all three cinematic Spider-Men in the film.