 Garfield was cast as Spider-Man/Peter Parker, opposite Emma Stone as his love interest Gwen Stacy, in Marc Webb's "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012), a reboot of the "Spider-Man" film series.Garfield saw his casting as a "massive challenge in many ways", having to make the character "authentic" and "live and breathe in a new way".He described Peter as someone he could relate to and stated that the character had been an important influence on him since he was a child.