Its the internet that over-reacted.Īfter all, the character Prior Walter is a gay man who lives in the drag community and in the play he interacts with his best friend Belize who is a drag queen. While Garfield is right about this, he also needs to consider the fact that he has some fault in the situation too.īut ultimately, he just made stupid joke. “The intention was to speak to that, speak to my desire to play this part to the best of my ability and to fully immerse myself in a culture that I adore.” “It’s important to a community that I feel so welcomed by.” “My only longing is to serve and to keep the world spinning forward for the LGBTQ community in whatever way I’m meant to.” We were talking about, ‘How do you prepare for something so important and so big?’ and I was basically saying, ‘I dive in as fully as I possibly can.'” “It’s a love letter to the LGBTQ community. “That discussion was about this play and how deeply grateful I am that I get to work on something so profound. “That’s of course not what I meant at all." To offset this, Garfield recently talked to BBC’s Newsbeat to defend himself and say that news sites were missing the point of what he said and twisting his words to fit their sensationalism.
Ive been studying my whole life, can I have that role? "I think part of what I was trying to say was about inclusion and about that openness to my impulses," he said.Andrew Garfield watched Rupauls Drag Race to study for an upcoming role as a gay man. Garfield again referenced the controversy in his latest interview, but this time offering a slightly different explanation. We were talking about, 'How do you prepare for something so important and so big?' and I was basically saying, 'I dive in as fully as I possibly can.'" "It's a love letter to the LGBTQ community. "That discussion was about this play and how deeply grateful I am that I get to work on something so profound," he told Newsbeat at the time. The pair appears to have remained close since then, with Garfield saying, "There's so much love between us." Garfield famously dated Amazing Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone before the couple broke up in 2015. "I have an openness to any impulses that may arise within me at any time," he continued. I want to know as much of the garden as possible before I pass."
I think most people, we’re intrinsically trying to control our experience here and manage it and put walls around what we are and who we are. “My stance toward life, though, is that I always try to surrender to the mystery of not being in charge. “Up until this point, I’ve only been sexually attracted to women,” Garfield said in the interview with the LGBTQ lifestyle magazine. He also discussed his sexuality, a topic that has caused a stir in the past. The 34-year-old actor spoke with Out Magazine about his ongoing role in a theatrical run of Angels in America, a groundbreaking play that examines what it meant to be gay or have AIDS in 1980s America. Andrew Garfield is again talking about his sexuality, this time explaining its fluidity.