Andrew Garfield: Working on ‘Spider-Man’ was a ‘bummer’ & ‘like a prison’

NailTamie Temmuz 09, 2021

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I’ve never really disliked Andrew Garfield. I actually found him strangely attractive for a while, and I do think he’s an interesting and talented actor. But his interviews… I don’t know, it’s not that I think he’s a terrible person, I just don’t think he’s as smart as he thinks he is. He tries to expound on capitalism and religion and he just sounds sort of douchey. He tries to say words about Spider-Man and he ends up falling into a deep well of sexist gender stereotypes. And now that he’s no longer Spider-Man (he was recast after two boring, poorly-received movies), Andrew has more thoughts on his Spider-Man experience. Those thoughts are too much for two films that no one cared about.

“With a film like [“The Amazing Spider-Man”], there’s so much projection and expectation that is inherent in taking on a story and character like that,” he said. “I was well up for the challenge, and I still am. I’m not going to shy away from something that a lot of people are going to see. Fuck it, bring it on, life’s short.”

However, Garfield claimed that he feels more free now in certain ways than he during his time on the ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ films. “The pressure to get it right, to please everyone… it’s not going to happen…You end up pleasing no one, or everyone just a little bit. Like, ‘Eh, that was good.’ [The films are] mass-marketed, like ‘We want 50-year-old white men to love it, gay teenagers to love it, bigot homophobes in Middle America to love it, 11-year-old girls to love it.’ That’s canning Coke.

“So that aspect of it was a bummer,” he continued. “Especially for the group of us trying to infuse it with soul, trying to make it unique, something that was worth the price of entry. It was about authenticity, flavor, and truth, but at the same time, I understand people want to make a lot of money, and they’re going to spend a lot of money so the playpen can be as big as it was. I can’t live that way; it sounds like a prison, to be honest, living within those expectations.”

[From IndieWire]

There is this aspect to Garfield where he sometimes comes across like the most delicate flower in the field, so just put that in its proper context with his hyperbole of being in a “prison” of, you know, just playing Spider-Man. Playing Spider-Man was like a prison! The experience was like a gas chamber, or perhaps like a genocide.

Now, all that being said, it wasn’t really his fault that no one cared about his Spider-Man. I’m not sure it was even the studio’s fault, although they should take some of the blame. I think Spider-Man is simply one of the least interesting superheroes – he’s such a goody-two-shoes – and the reboot came too quickly after Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man series. Just as this latest reboot is coming too quickly after Garfield was IMPRISONED in the role.

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