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Contender Q&A: Andrew Garfield
When Andrew Garfield won the role of Spider-Man in July, most people asked, “Who?” Now, after the one-two punch of “Never Let Me Go” and “The Social Network,” Garfield has become one of Hollywood’s most recognized young actors, picking up a Golden Globe nomination and sharing a Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination for his work in “The Social Network” and being named … wait for it … an Esquire magazine Grooming Icon for 2011.
“My mum would be, ‘Yes, yes, you have lovely hair,’” Garfield says, laughing, while looking at the magazine. “I’m really flattered that these guys have noticed the work it takes to control a lion’s mane on a human head.”
Garfield, 27, was born in Los Angeles and raised in Surrey, England. He has a slim build and a quick wit that he hasn’t yet been able to exploit in any of his film roles. But there’s plenty of time. Meanwhile, playing Eduardo Saverin, the young man who bankrolled and was ultimately betrayed by Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) in “The Social Network,” Garfield provides the movie with a necessary decency in the crucial role of empathetic observer. It’s a subtle, commanding performance, worthy of all the attention.
The UK’s Garfield will likely be atop of this list in 2012, with him playing the new Spider-Man and all (in Marc Webb’s superhero reboot, due out next year), but 2011’s going to be super kind to him all the same. Garfield’s hot off the acclaimed “The Social Network”, one of the biggest Oscar contenders of the year, and also impressed critics with his recent performance in “Never Let Me Go”, but more so, his face – likely covered in red latex – is going to plastered across magazines, web sites and desktop backgrounds this year.
Andrew Garfield on the Spider-Man Suit: ‘I Feel Like a Kid in My Pajamas’
Andrew Garfield, still riding high from Oscar hopeful The Social Network, recently spoke to The Guardian during a break in filming on the upcoming Spider-Man reboot, in which Emma Stone co-stars.
Nothing substantial about the movie was revealed, but the 27-year-old Brit — who also starred in Never Let Me Go alongside Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley — did offer insight into the Spider-Man suit, working out and Peter Parker.
“We started shooting two weeks ago and then we have Christmas off,” Garfield shared. “Then we’re back into it for, gosh, I’m sure a fair bit of time. It’s nice, I’ve never really done a — well, I guess The Social Network took four months to shoot but I was kind of in and out; I wasn’t there every single day. But with this, I’m going to have to hibernate into this character for at least four or five months.” (Prior to shooting, Garfield said he would most likely be critical of his casting.)
The interviewer asked if he’s tried on the red and blue suit. “I have,” he answered. Does he look cool in it? Garfield laughed, “I feel like a kid in my pajamas.”
“I can only say how it feels and it feels pretty special. It feels like a dream realized and a fantasy realized,” he added. “I don’t take it lightly and I feel incredibly lucky that I get to wear spandex for the next few months.”
When he was asked about working out for the role and if he had to muscle up, Garfield revealed some nuggets about Peter Parker.
“I think Spider-Man needs strength, but Peter Parker is still a teenager, you know? That’s a very tender balance to figure out,” he said. “It’s very specific what we’re trying to achieve in terms of body type and the feeling of that. Rest assured, there’s a lot of people who are helping me with it because I have no discipline in that respect. My father’s a swimming coach and I kind of rebelled against that very, very early on so any form of physical discipline has to be really cracked with a really smart whip.”
(On a recent appearance on The Tonight Show, Stone revealed that she and Garfield shared the same trainer.)
On a semi-related side note, when the interviewer praised Garfield’s ability to “straddle” the “Englishness” of Never Let Me Go as well as seamlessly enter into “modern America” in The Social Network, Garfield, always his self-deprecating self, said with a laugh, “I can given no credit for that. I just auditioned for both of those things because I had the opportunity to.”
Later on, he joked: “Yeah, what I need to do is I need to straddle the most current American phenomenon.” (Garfield’s father is from Los Angeles, while his mother is originally from Essex.)
With a new year quickly approaching, we’re doing more than stocking up on Champagne and re-remembering the lyrics to “Auld Lang Syne.” We’re also stopping to reflect on the year that was: and what a year 2010 was for fashion, music, and film. Ke$ha convinced us to throw away our toothbrushes; Justin Bieber melted 12-year-old hearts worldwide; and James Franco managed to juggle about nine careers at once. They (and 15 others) deserve to be recognized for their efforts! And so, without further ado, we are proud to present: Interview’s Faces of 2010.
The Breakthrough Actor: Andrew Garfield
In two of 2010′s most prominent films, Andrew Garfield’s was the character you were left thinking about long after the film was over. Garfield starred first as Tommy, the tragic love interest to Carey Mulligan‘s Kathy, in Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s tearjerker novel Never Let Me Go. Then, in The Social Network, Garfield brought some much-needed humanity to Aaron Sorkin’s tale of the founding of Facebook in his role as young Brazilian billionaire Eduardo Saverin. Garfield, with his quiet, serious charm and his highly expressive face, turned quite a few heads this year-including that of director Mark Webb, who cast him as Peter Parker in the upcoming 3-D Spider-Man film.
Quotable in 2010: “I was also into gymnastics when I was younger. I remember having a horribly traumatic experience where this fat guy sat on my back while I was doing the splits, and I was looking for my mother in the group of mothers on the sidelines, but I couldn’t find her. I remember sitting there, watching all of these kids do cartwheels-it just looked terrible to me,” Garfield reminisced to Terry Gilliam in October.
MTV’s newest movie blog NextMovie put together a list of the 21 breakout stars of 2010, and Andrew came out top! Thanks to Andie for the tip! Here’s what they had to say:
01. Andrew Garfield Seen In:“The Social Network,”“Never Let Me Go”
NextFactor: It was quite a year for this British thespian. His unassuming good looks and talent for commanding an audience’s sympathies might just nab him the status of Hollywood’s next “everyman” (see: Jimmy Stewart, Tom Hanks, etc.), not to mention an Oscar nomination for serving as the moral compass in “Social Network.” And oh yeah, he also signed on to play Spider-Man in the 2012 reboot.
Andrew Garfield has had a big year. From recently being cast as the new Spiderman in Mark Webb’s reboot of the series, to two back-to-back roles of considerable acclaim in Mark Romanek’s “Never Let Me Go” and David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” Garfield has leaped from an up-and-comer to a clear presence in young Hollywood. Thankfully, he’s kept his modesty and dedication to his work in tow. When he spoke to indieWIRE about his past year, it was clear that his rise to celebrity status is not what he’s most proud of.
“The only real difference [between now and a year ago] is that people have seen the films and seemed to have responded positively, which I is really nice,” Garfield said of the latter half of 2010, when both “Never Let Me Go” and “The Social Network” premiered within weeks of each other. “But outside of that, it’s just been kind of another year of working hard. And working on things that I really, really care about. That said, it does makes a great difference to how you wake up in the morning and it’s nice to know that this thing you were a part of has touched someone in some way or has provoked them in some way or inspired them or reassured them or whatever. Of course it’s a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But actually it’s secondary to the actual filming experience. It has to be. Otherwise it’s much too heartbreaking. Because the majority of the projects you’re going to be a part of aren’t going to get a good response. Everyone out there has their own opinion, and we all have our own subjective realities.”
Andrew Garfield is taking inspiration from late actor Heath Ledger’s performance as Joker in “The Dark Knight” to prepare for his role as Spider Man.
Both the actors worked together on “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” before Ledger’s untimely death in 2008.
“(The Dark Knight) wasn’t out, but I knew how excited he was. I was talking to his friends about it, who had been involved in the process, and they were so jazzed about how people were going to react to him,” said Garfield.
The actor says whatever he has learned from Ledger, he will incorporate that in his style of acting, reports contactmusic.
“What I learned from watching him in that movie was that it was so honest and specific. Somehow he made this very broad character incredibly honest and human. There’s so much to be learned from that, because otherwise during the big fight sequences, who cares, unless you have a good understanding of who the characters fighting are?”
Garfield has replaced Tobey Maguire, who quit the franchise earlier this year after starring in three films.
L.A. Times: “‘The Social Network’s’ Andrew Garfield has a way with emotion”
Another article has appeared online with a brand new interivew (and photo, huzzah!) with Andrew. This time he talks “The Social Network”, comments on “Never Let Me Go” and being the new Spidey and fulfilling his childhood dreams.
In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s look at the contentious founding of Facebook, opening Friday, Garfield plays Brazilian-born Eduardo Saverin, who, along with fellow Harvard undergrad and punk genius — as the marketing campaign would have it — Mark Zuckerberg ( Jesse Eisenberg), creates Facebook. But when the social networking site, initially known as thefacebook, swiftly becomes a global sensation — and a huge money-earner — Saverin and Zuckerberg have a falling out.
“He’s Mark’s only true friend and big brother,” Garfield says of Saverin in a phone interview. “There’s definitely a Cain and Abel relationship.”
In preparation for the film, based on the Ben Mezrich book “The Accidental Billionaires,” Garfield wasn’t able to meet his real-life counterpart. “It didn’t feel imperative because Aaron Sorkin wrote this incredibly detailed and idiosyncratic script in which he managed to flesh out a bunch of real people in all of their facets, so it was all there on the page. But in terms of doing some kind of mimicry performance, it didn’t feel necessary or important,” says the actor, who was born in L.A. but moved with his family to England when he was 3. Read more …
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