Andrew Garfield Discusses The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Tik, Tik…BOOM!, & Spider-Man With Variety

Andrew Garfield is on the cover of the upcoming issue of Variety magazine. The actor is on the cover of the magazine’s special TIFF issue to promote his new film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Highlights from his interview are below.

On his role in the upcoming film: “The pervading religion right now is prosperity. Look at any social media platform; it’s no accident. Jim and Tammy were the first reality show couple. They announced births and had family Christmases on the air. They were pre-Kardashian Kardashians. Look at these megachurches now; it’s alive and well. It’s all prosperity doctrine. ‘I am enough if I have this.’ That is what fascinated me about Jim, and it was painful to play: inhabiting that space of total dependence on something that is undependable and calling it God.”

On his time as playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Sony’s Spider-Man series: “It was only beautiful. I got to meet Emma [Stone] and work with her and Sally Field. I had karma with Amy Pascal, who was a mother figure, and we would fight, but ultimately, we loved each other on a deep level. We tried to meet as much in the middle as we could in terms of why I wanted to do this role, and what her needs were as the head of the studio.”

On his mother’s passing inspiring his role in the upcoming musical, Tik, Tik…BOOM!: “I can feel her smiling at that. She was someone who was taken arguably too soon, even though we don’t get to decide. There are certain things you can’t control. What I started to understand through her loss is that we’re all leaving with a half-finished song. Being a part of this film with Lin and the rest of the company, I’m able to sing Jon’s songs and I’m able to hold my mother’s unfinished song in the lyrics and the music that Jon wrote. His work has become a container for that.”

You can check out even more from his interview here.