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Did Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield crush Batkid’s big Oscars moment?

SPIDER-MAN star Andrew Garfield pulled out of a planned Oscars segment that would’ve seen him team up with ‘Batkid’, aka cancer patient Miles Scott.

Did a tantrum from Andrew Garfield ruin one sick little boy’s big Oscars moment?
Did a tantrum from Andrew Garfield ruin one sick little boy’s big Oscars moment?

IT SEEMS not even a five-year-old boy with cancer could persuade actor Andrew Garfield to be a presenter at the Academy Awards.

The Spider-Man star was supposed to take the stage at this week’s ceremony alongside Miles Scott, who has come to be known as “Batkid” after the city of San Francisco let him play superhero there.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had arranged with the Make-A-Wish Foundation to further make Miles’ dreams come true.

“The academy was going to make him an official superhero during the Oscar ceremony. Andrew Garfield was going to appoint him ‘Batkid.’ But, in the middle of the dress rehearsal, Garfield decided he didn’t like his lines,” said a well-placed source.

Residents of San Francisco turned out in droves last November to help make Batkid’s dreams come true. Picture: AP
Residents of San Francisco turned out in droves last November to help make Batkid’s dreams come true. Picture: AP

“Garfield refused to go by the script. He came up with his own lines. The producers felt that Garfield’s [rewrites] were not appropriate. Garfield had a tantrum. He stormed off. Miles and his family, who were at the rehearsal, were devastated.”

Given the last-minute cancellation from Garfield, the show’s producers then decided to cut the superhero initiation entirely — instead, they paid for Miles to go to Disneyland.

“Garfield was such a spoiled brat that he didn’t even want to be a presenter,” said the source. The academy had to call Captain America star Chris Evans to sub at the last minute.

Garfield’s agent at CAA didn’t return calls.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post.

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