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Andrew Garfield scored a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for the Netflix film , tick…BOOM! In the film Garfield plays Jon, a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical.
Waking up early in the morning with his dog in tow to talk to Deadline about his nomination, Garfield got candid about portraying musician Jonathan Larson and showing respect to his legacy. This experience and acknowledgement by his peers isn’t something the actor takes lightly.
“You know, it’s the best it gets for anyone who has a sag card. But really this is Jonathan Larson’s and it’s a very personal story. It’s very, very personal. It feels incredibly gratifying to me, not only to be encouraged by my own tribe but it gives me a reason to keep doing what I’m doing.”
tick, tick…BOOM! Which also stars Joshua Henry, MJ Rodriguez, Bradley Whitford, Tariq Trotter, Judith Light and Vanessa Hudgens, is directed by first time film director Lin Manuel-Miranda, and based on the off-broadway musical of the same name written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The actor feels the nomination is bigger than him, and that this is honor and acknowledgement for Larson and his work.
“This nomination is really honoring Jon and all that he stood for. It kind of gives him more life–and that is, the ultimate intention with telling the story and making this film.”
Garfield learned a great deal about Larson while getting into character. One of the most prominent pieces of information he gained was seeing how the musician had a lust for life and living in the moment.
“He was someone who had acute awareness of the shortness and
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Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick … Boom!,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home”) and Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.What do Andrew Garfield and Rachel Zegler have in common? To start, they both love the theater, musicals — and each other. “You are in my favorite movie of the year,” Garfield tells 20-year-old Zegler on a recent video conversation about her first film role, as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.”“You are in my favorite movie of the year,” Zegler gushes back to Garfield about his turn as the composer Jonathan Larson in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!” And she’s also a super fan of Garfield’s surprise return to playing Peter Parker in the box office phenomenon “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” a movie that made her sob.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home.By deciding to confide in just his father, mother and brother, Garfield chose to keep the secret as closely held as he could manage – not even confirming his Amazing Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone’s suspicions.Garfield, along with former webslinger Tobey Maguire, appeared in the latest Spider-Man instalment, which sees Tom Holland portray the titular superhero.“I lied to people for a good two years and I lied to the internet for two years, and it felt great,” Garfield told The Ellen DeGeneres Show, adding that only three people in his life besides his agent knew that he was filming.“My dad, my brother, and my mother just kind of us. It was fun to keep it a secret,” Garfield added.
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