
“Like an animal preying on a smaller animal, but a wily smaller animal.” I couldn't help but try to stay with her, keep pace with her, and not let her get away,” he said with a laugh. Throughout shooting, it was wild and exciting. And then she came in, and it was like diving into white-water rapids and having no desire to hang on to the side. “She was the last person to screen-test, and I was so bored of it by then that I was mucking about-I'd been pretending I was Tom Hanks or Seth Rogen. “It was like I woke up when she came in,” he told Teen Vogue in a 2012 interview with Stone. News of Garfield's casting as Peter Parker came out on July 2, 2010, meaning that Stone and Garfield's joint audition likely happened that summer.

Garfield spoke about being drawn to Stone during their screen test. News of Stone's casting in The Amazing Spider-Man with Garfield broke during the first week of October 2010 Speak Now came out October 25, 2010. Here's the exact sequence of events known publicly:
