Andrew Garfield clarifies comments about 'retiring' from acting

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Just a day after comments about taking a break somehow spiraled into him quitting acting altogether, Andrew Garfield is clarifying those comments.The 38-year-old actor was promoting his new FX TV series Under the Banner of Heaven with co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones on The View on Thursday.He insisted that he is not quitting or retiring from acting, but he just wants to take a 'break' for perhaps 'a month or two.' Not quitting:Just a day after comments about taking a break somehow spiraled into him quitting acting altogether, Andrew Garfield is clarifying those comments Just a break:He insisted that he is not quitting or retiring from acting, but he just wants to take a 'break' for perhaps 'a month or two'The View host Joy Behar wanted to 'put to bed a rumor that you're quitting acting,' as Garfield played along, at first.'Yeah, I'm retired from acting.

No, I'm done. I have no desire to do... I have enough money to live in a camper van for the rest of my life and I'm done,' he joked, before addressing the rumors seriously. 'No, I don't know where that came from.

I'm just having a holiday,' he told The View panel. Play along:The View host Joy Behar wanted to 'put to bed a rumor that you're quitting acting,' as Garfield played along, at firstBehar asked what started it, as he clarified, 'I just said I'm gonna rest, I'm gonna have a holiday, and I think people just make a story out nothing.''I've been working hard and I've been loving the work that I'm doing, but also, I need to take a month or so.

A month of a break, maybe two,' Garfield said.Behar mentioned that three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis did retire from acting in 2017, before the release of his film Phantom Thread.