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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In the last four days, Andrew Garfield has won a Golden Globe Award, landed on BAFTA’s “longlists” for his performances in both “tick, tick…BOOM!” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for the former film – all while “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” in which he appears, continues to dominate the box office.It has, in other words, been a very busy, very crowded time. “I just have to take them one at a time, I think, and appreciate that I’m alive and breathing and that I get to act,” Garfield told TheWrap on Wednesday morning, shortly after the SAG nominations were announced.
“I’m trying my best to be present for it and really enjoy the moment and feel the energy of it – and to ask myself, ‘What do I want to do with this energy?’”Of course, that part is complicated by the fact that awards season has once again gone virtual, after a flurry of in-person events before the Omicron variant made gatherings too risky. “It’s obviously changed things, but it’s the same with everything in life right now,” he said.
“We’re all longing to be in rooms together safely – what are we but our connections?“It would be wonderful if I could share this in a room with my castmates and friends and family,” he said. “I mean, I’d love to go bowling tonight and get an In-N-Out burger to celebrate, but we have to accept where we are and put safety first.”And the actor would also like to get together with one of his fellow nominees – because for years, Garfield’s go-to karaoke song has been Will Smith’s “Miami,” and now he’s going up against Smith, who was nominated for his lead performance in “King Richard.”“How do you begin to compute that?” he said, laughing.
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Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThere has been media debate whether “Spider-Man: No Way Home” could get a best picture Oscar nomination, since voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have been reluctant to celebrate movies in that genre. But describing this as a superhero movie is like saying “The Godfather” is a gangster film. It IS, but it’s much more.The box-office success proves that the film is hitting a nerve with audiences: They needed this film.
Andrew Garfield only let three people know about his ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ role
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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