Andrew Garfield Both Disappointed And Fond Of Amazing Spider-Man

Almost three years after Andrew Garfield hit the box office in the blue and red in both “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” he gets candid saying that he felt that the films were a letdown and that he never felt “represented” by the Spider-man franchise. On another note, he says that so many beautiful things came out of that and he met someone that remains incredibly important to his life. Even if he did mention to fill in the blanks on who that someone is, everyone knows it’s Emma Stone, his former girlfriend who played Spidey’s love interest Gwen Stacy.

Andrew Garfield Talks About Not Being ‘Represented’

When the actor was offered to play Peter Parker, he signed up for it in a whim. He loved the character so much saying that Spider-man was his favorite superhero. His first superhero costume when he was a 3-year-old at Halloween was actually Spider-man. But when the films were made, he his disappointment over not being “represented” brought some frustration.

MSN reported Andrew’s sentiment went to as far as comparing how he felt when he did “Never Let Me Go” and “The Social Network.” He felt he was being “very represented” in those two but not in the Spider-man franchise. “I didn’t feel like that was my work up there, in a weird way. It felt like a resemblance of it or kind of a shade of it, but ultimately I felt it was enshrouded in that filter.” In a Variety actor-on-actor interview he expressed to Amy Adams that he found it tricky. “I signed up to serve the story and to serve this incredible character that I’ve been dressing as since I was three, and then it gets compromised and it breaks your heart. I got heartbroken a little bit to a certain degree.”

He also told The Hollywood Reporter that “There’s millions of young people watching who are hungry for someone to say, ‘You’re OK. You’re seen very deeply.’ And more often than not the opportunity is not taken, and it is absolutely devastating and heartbreaking because there is so much medicine that could be delivered through those films. Boy, better luck to new spidey Tom Holland, right?”

Now that Andrew has said his piece about his previous Spider-Man films, the 33-year-old British actor is creating Best Actor Oscar stir for his performances in Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge and Martin Scorsese’s Silence.