Actor Andrew Garfield has made a renewed call for having a gay Spider-Man, years after he said about the character: “Why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?” In 2013, when Garfield talked about how he speculated with one of the film producers that the character could be portrayed as homosexual, he told Entertainment Weekly, “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ… I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking!… So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?” MJ in the Spider-Man movies stands for Mary Jane Watson, the love interest for Peter Parker. He has doubled down on his comments, and told the same outlet in an interview on Monday, “It was an exercise in rebellion that I felt passionate about. I just still believe that anyone can be in that suit.” thepostmillennial.com