Watching Andrew Garfield Dodge Every Spider-Man Question Made Me Love Him Even More

This GQ video predates the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home, so watching Andrew Garfield field internet questions while still denying his involvement in the film gives the whole thing an extra layer of comedy now. My overall verdict after going through it is simple: I freaking love Andrew Garfield. As I said while watching, "i freaking love andrew garfield he's so cute" and "he was so genuine."

For fans, the appeal of this video is watching Garfield get pulled through Wikipedia facts, Reddit comments, and Twitter questions and respond to almost all of it with total openness, except for the one topic everyone actually wanted answered.

Andrew Garfield's Dodge of the Spider-Man Suit Photo Question Is the Best Part

The moment that stuck with me most was GQ bringing up the Spider-Man photoshop controversy from his Jimmy Fallon appearance. Garfield's response amounts to "we'll find out when the movie comes out." Watching him do this repeatedly is what got me. I pointed out that he only worked on the film for two weeks and then had to spend months pretending he wasn't in it, coming up with answers over and over that never sounded convincing. My exact reaction was, "it's just so like fascinating that must have been so exhausting," and I joked that his credibility should be lost forever after this, though obviously we all forgive him now.

Garfield's Answers About Faith, Jokers, and Fincher Show How Unguarded He Is

Outside the Spider-Man dodge, what struck me is how unabashedly himself Garfield is in every other answer, from admitting he trained a year and a half to sing for tick tick BOOM!, to explaining that doing Silence and Hacksaw Ridge back to back was coincidence rather than some hidden agenda despite being Jewish and identifying as an agnostic pantheist, to saying he would never play Joker himself but thinks Joaquin Phoenix could "pull it off with flying colors." His explanation for why he's drawn to spiritually intense roles, that he likes to "stretch my consciousness" and feel empathy for as many people as possible, is the kind of unscripted honesty that makes the rest of the video land.

The Ending Is What Sold Me Completely

My favorite moment is how he ends it, cutting the interview off himself and saying he's done, then thanking everyone and saying bye in a way that comes across warm rather than dismissive. That, combined with everything else in the video, left me saying "oh please please andrew garfield be this cool in person" and only half joking that "can you be my friend please." I haven't heard anything negative about him from anyone, and this video only reinforces that he's genuinely this person off camera too.

Do you think Andrew Garfield's constant denials about No Way Home were worth the exhausting charade, or should he have just come clean earlier?