SAG Awards 2022: Andrew Garfield Reflects on Channeling Late ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ Writer Jonathan Larson’s ‘Passion’
usmagazine.comInspired for life. Andrew Garfield paid tribute to the late Jonathan Larson, the mind behind Tick, Tick … Boom!, at the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.“It’s so amazing that I get to be here with all of our colleagues and our community celebrating on a tricky day to celebrate … We’re trying to bring Jonathan’s ‘Seasons of Love’ [to everyone],” Garfield, 38, said on the red carpet outside the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday, February 27.He continued, reflecting on how he got into character for the November 2021 film: “It was about getting to that place of Jonathan Larson passion.
He wasn’t thinking about how he sounded, he was just thinking about getting heard. … For me, it was getting to that place of confidence where I could fill up his lungs with my lungs and fill up his song with my song and try to change the world.
That’s what Jonathan was doing, he was trying to revolutionize how we treat each other. So that was the biggest challenge.”The British star was nominated for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Motion Picture for his work in the Netflix film, losing out to Will Smith in King Richard.
Garfield was previously nominated in the same category in 2017 for Hacksaw Ridge, and he earned a nod for Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture in 2011 for The Social Network.In the Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed movie, Garfield portrays Larson as he attempts to sell an original Broadway musical.
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