Andrew Garfield

1 sketch, 13 claims, and 15 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview (guest)

Drawn to dark, strange, specific directors and to spiritual, grueling roles; loves The Goonies, The Game, Free Solo, Russian Doll and immersive theater. Wants a Spider-Man-sized scope with a small film's soul. Admires filmmakers who make exactly the film they want.

Stances

  • Sam is a victim of the culture who is also perpetuating it, and he has compassion for him
  • Fans decoding the film is joyful, and cult status would be awesome
  • Seeks balance between decency and baser material in roles

Humor: Rambling, self-mocking storyteller with comic detail about humiliating early-LA anecdotes.

In their words

  • “I was happy being paid for pretending to be people.” (0:36:49)
  • “a one-man Goonies, a quest movie” (0:51:49)
  • “I think I'm overly English and therefore overly cautious about bothering people.” (0:46:29)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–13 of 13 claims.

  1. theme (theme): Under the Silver Lake → Los Angeles. The film captures the city's forbidding, foreboding feeling that everyone is on the outside.
    “the feeling of forbiddance and foreboding that the city has, I think, is what David, Robert Mitchell, the director of this film under the silver lake really captures”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:35:51 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Andrew Garfield → Ryan Gosling. Acting opposite Gosling in a Kavalier & Clay screen test taught Garfield what screen acting is.
    “going, oh, fuck, that's what that's what screen acting is.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:39:10 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Andrew Garfield → Lions for Lambs. The unmade Kavalier & Clay screen test reached Robert Redford and got Garfield cast in Lions for Lambs.
    “a screen test to Redford.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:41:21 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Avy Kaufman → Lions for Lambs. The casting director on the unmade Kavalier & Clay passed Garfield's screen test to Robert Redford, which led to his Lions for Lambs audition and casting.
    “AV sent, I think, a screen test to Redford.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:41:21 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): 99 Homes → The Amazing Spider-Man films. 99 Homes and Death of a Salesman were the antidote to the franchise behemoth.
    “this great antidote for, um, this, this beer moth kind of uh, franchise.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:45:10 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Andrew Garfield → Martin Scorsese. Garfield kept a list of directors to wait for, with Scorsese on it, but hasn't had the courage to write them.
    “I made a list of directors that I was going to wait for.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:46:01 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Under the Silver Lake → Silence. Silence and Angels in America left Garfield with a martyrdom complex, so Silver Lake was a reaction in the opposite direction.
    “Angels in America was definitely the icing on top of the martyrdom cake”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:47:55 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Free Solo → Andrew Garfield. Garfield loves Free Solo because he is curious about human potential and where we break.
    “I'm just very curious about the human potential”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:48:43 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Under the Silver Lake → The Goonies. Garfield says the script reminded him of The Goonies: a grown-up, regressed one-man quest movie.
    “It was like a grown up regressed version of the Goonies of like a one-man Goonies, a quest movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:51:49 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  10. people (people): Under the Silver Lake → David Robert Mitchell. Mitchell is specific about mood and references, all on the page, and the film is knowingly meta.
    “David is so specific in what he wants to create, the mood he wants to create”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:52:30 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (lineage): Under the Silver Lake → Taxi Driver (unnamed; via Travis Bickle). Sam is a young man who considers himself a Travis Bickle wiping scum off the streets, but he is brainwashed and perpetuates the misogyny.
    “a young man who considers himself a Travis Bickle wanting to wipe the scum off the streets”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:54:54 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): Under the Silver Lake → The Game. Garfield says people crave mystery and decoding, citing The Game as a favorite modern film about that.
    “the game is one of my favorite like modern films of all time that deals with this issue.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  13. theme (theme): Under the Silver Lake → Sunset Boulevard (immersive adaptation). Immersive theater like Punchdrunk gives the same visceral decoding-a-mystery experience as the film's code hunt.
    “you feel viscerally involved in decoding some mystery.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:53 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–15 of 15 fun items.

  1. fun, about Andrew Garfield: He first stayed in LA on his manager's assistant's leather couch with a heavy-breathing pit bull, waking stuck to it, and walked to the California Chicken Cafe.
    “And, uh, and it was a leather couch, so my skin would be stuck to it by the time I woke up every morning.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:34:16 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (unmade): Garfield's screen test for the never-made film put him alongside a crowd of young actors, Ryan Gosling napping in a dressing room.
    “Ryan Gosling is taking a nap or meditating or something”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:38:22 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (unmade): The Sam/Joseph screen-test pool: Schwartzman, Bell, Maguire, Murphy, Whishaw, Gosling.
    “And it was myself, Jason Schwartzman.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:38:22 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Andrew Garfield: Two days of screen tests with film cameras felt like film school.
    “It was 2 days of kind of like film school, really.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:39:56 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Teen Wolf 3: Garfield's childhood dream was making Teen Wolf 3 after the Jason Bateman one flopped; the next Michael J. Fox would be a British boy from Surrey.
    “where I would fantasize making Teen Wolf 3 after the Jason Bateman one didn't go as well as planned.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:40:05 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about White Men Can't Jump: Garfield's dream: a sequel where white men still can't jump, set in London's subterranean basketball culture.
    “where white men still can't jump”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:40:40 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Andrew Garfield: Waiting on the Lions for Lambs casting call in an H&M fitting room at the Beverly Center.
    “trying on an ill-fitting suit in H and M that I could just about afford to buy and maybe take back if I didn't stain it.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:42:20 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Eddie Redmayne: Redmayne introduced Garfield around at a party but skipped Natalie Portman, seemingly to protect his thunder.
    “he did not introduce me to Natalie Portman.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:43:12 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Angels in America: Garfield calls the eight-hour play pure martyrdom with a fresh audience each night.
    “which is angels in America, which is 8 hours of pure martyrdom.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:47:37 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Andrew Garfield: His swimming-coach father never let him settle, even a gold medal was celebrated briefly, then back to the tape.
    “Even a gold medal was celebrated briefly, and then you kind of go back to the tape and you go, so where did you go wrong?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:49:24 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Garfield's favorite catharsis: a scene where he beats up a bunch of kids half his size.
    “there's a scene where I get to beat up a bunch of kids, like who are very, very weak compared to me.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:50:19 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Mitchell is hurt that some people think the film perpetuates Hollywood's misogyny.
    “he's disappointed in, and, and hurt that, um, certain people feel like it's, um, perpetuating the, the, the misogyny of Hollywood”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:54:16 · Andrew Garfield (0.95 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about David Robert Mitchell: Garfield guesses Mitchell enjoys being the architect watching viewers decode his film like mice.
    “he likes being the architect watching the, the mice scurry around.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:59:46 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Garfield hopes it becomes a cult classic; he was fascinated by a geocaching-style live treasure-hunt app.
    “there was an app where you could do like a live treasure hunt”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:00:30 · Andrew Garfield (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: The cereal box that seems to call out is the moment Garfield gets chills thinking about.
    “Like, the cereal box calling out.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:05:32 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)