Andrew Garfield on Getting Notes From a Ghost for ‘Tick, Tick Boom,’ His Love for Spider-Man: ‘I Need to Nourish That Child Who Is Out There Watching’
variety.comJohn Bleasdale Guest Contributor Andrew Garfield spoke to an audience rich in Spider-Man fans about his career at the Red Sea Film Festival Thursday, sitting alongside Saudi producer and Red Sea Film Foundation CEO Mohammed Al Turki.
The two have known each other since Garfield starred in Ramin Bahrani’s 2014 drama “99 Homes,” which Al Turki produced. “I’m currently out of work,” Garfield quipped. “So I’m just here to talk to Mo really.” “I’m 40 years old now and I still get absolutely petrified,” Garfield said. “I have terrible impostor syndrome.
I didn’t know it was a viable option to be an actor. I loved being an athlete. I hated school. I wasn’t strong enough to be a rugby player.
It was my mother who suggested I look at doing something creative.” Garfield spoke about his career from making a Doritos commercial when he was 21 to his early days in Hollywood, as part of a British invasion of talent that included Jamie Dornan, Robert Pattinson, Tom Sturridge and Charlie Cox.
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