Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland have all played Spider-Man, one of Marvel‘s most beloved young heroes, on the big screen in the last three decades. However, they faced some stiff competition to book the gig.

A multitude of actors have been attached to the role of Peter Parker at some point over the years.

Many of them competed with Tobey, Andrew and Tom. However, others were up for totally different movies that never got made. Interestingly, some of the celebs who were considered for the part even went on to land different roles in the franchise!

We looked back in history and pulled together 11 A-listers who had been linked to the part over the years and checked out what they had to say about their audition process. There might be some surprises on this list!

Scroll through all of the actors who were rumored to be competing for a chance to play Spider-Man…