NEWSDAY.COM has published an article about Andrew about BOY A. (Article by Joseph V. Amodio; Glenn Gamboa; Verne Gay)
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This ‘Boy’ could be ready for the ‘A’ list

He’s headed for your local multiplex and we’re telling you now – he’s one to watch. Name’s Andrew Garfield. Heard of him?

Probably not, unless you caught last year’s “Lions for Lambs” (with Robert Redford) or follow Britain’s top acting awards. He won the British Academy’s television award for best actor for his compelling performance in “Boy A,” which hits Manhattan theaters Wednesday and Long Island screens Aug. 1

Garfield, 24, plays Jack, a likable chap with a terrible secret – he’s the infamous Boy A, once on trial as a child for a horrific crime. Now released from prison, he must create a new life. He makes a friend, meets a girl – and you can’t help rooting for him, wondering: Can he outrun his past? Or the press?

Garfield – half Brit, half American – moved to England at age 4. He has few U.S. memories, save for a Disneyland trip “and my brother winning a glow-in-the-dark visor,” he recalls. Cue the jealousy, tears, and wee Andy “was given a cloth visor out of pity, which was nowhere near as exciting and which I rejected shirtily.” (Yes, shirtily, British slang for crabbily.)

Since then, he’s channeled his angst into acting and won two best newcomer awards for stage roles at the National Theatre and Manchester Royal Exchange. He’s shown range, from, like, an American slacker frat boy (in “Lions”) to Romeo (on stage in England). That role, he notes, was “like running a marathon [and] being on stage feels like an adrenaline sport. Connecting with a live audience is incomparable.”

He’ll likely hit Broadway soon enough. As for his own favorite actors? He’s inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Dustin Hoffman, Ryan Gosling and Isabelle Huppert. But catch Garfield on screen and it’s like watching Sean Penn in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” or Jodie Foster in “Taxi Driver.”

By Vicki • July 30, 2008 • Articles & Interviews • Comments: 0

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