“Spider-Man” star Andrew Garfield‘s unease with the script for a planned Oscars segment with “Batkid” Miles Scott largely led to the cancellation of the appearance altogether,ย a person who observed rehearsalย tells TheWrap.
During Sunday night’s telecast, Garfield was supposed to make a special presentation with Scott, a five-year-old cancer patient who earned the nickname Batkid after the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the city of San Francisco granted him an elaborate day of superhero role-playing in November. However, two sources who were present during rehearsals say Garfield showed up with a re-written version of the speech he’d been given, complaining that the original was exploitative.