Nobody made any kind of a story about any of the specific actors being difficult to sign on. All this discussion has come from comments made from you guys. Nothing more. You keep banging on about how he wasn't important. Again it has nothing to do with importance. Its about how difficult he would have been to convince given he is the one and only actor I've ever heard of in the entirety of the Spider-Man movie franchise who actually hated his role. And made a public ass out of himself trashing the role, too.
Given that their story revolved on not just the returning Spideys but also multiple villains from each universe, their choices were limited with the TASM world. Rhino was too much of a farce to even be a serious contender. And the less said about that joke of a "Goblin" Dane DeHaan played the better, especially since we were already getting a proper Goblin from Raimi's universe. So they were pretty much left with Lizard and Electro. They could have just made Lizard a mute CGI monster, but they clearly wanted all their villains to have a personality, no matter how limited the role.
I do think Tobey probably did take some serious convincing, but I don't think he was the most difficult one. Especially after what Feige said on that subject.
