"There is something crass about self- promotion," he says. He makes regular eye contact and his rat-a-tat, many-words-a-minute delivery is punctuated by bouts of self-deprecation. He is a thoughtful chap – he quotes both Shakespeare and Cat Stevens during the course of our chat – and like Peter Parker in the new film, he seems more settled in his superhero skin. His tall, wiry frame, which is wrapped in black T-jeans and jumper, fidgets in the chair as he talks.
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Today, by contrast, he is full of energy and charm. I've interviewed him several times in the past few years, and he's never been as excruciatingly uncomfortable as he was during the press tour for his first Spider-Man film, in 2012, where he mumbled his way through interviews, eyes cast to the ground.Īndrew Garfield, left, and Jesse Eisenberg in Columbia Pictures' The Social Network.
"I feel like I've changed a lot since I shot the first movie," Garfield says. We were finding our feet a little bit on the first one." Still, the first film didn't do too badly – it grossed upwards of £450m in worldwide ticket sales, despite some clunky moments and a leading man who never seemed entirely comfortable when asked to promote the film. "I wasn't satisfied with the first movie," says Garfield, "but I think there is a cohesiveness on this film that we didn't quite have on the first. In the new film, Peter Parker sheds his teen angst and embraces his superpowers, battling a phalanx of villains played by Paul Giamatti, Jamie Foxx and Dane DeHaan. Then again, Spiderman's previous incarnation was Tobey Maguire. His casting for the first instalment of the Amazing Spider-Man series, announced four years ago, took the industry and fans alike by surprise – Garfield had largely played troubled, sensitive souls, as in Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, opposite Carey Mulligan in Never Let Me Go and, of course, as Mark Zuckerberg's betrayed friend Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network.
Highlights for Richard Garfield this year will include watching his 30-year-old son produce his first movie, take the lead in a Martin Scorsese film – and, of course, save New York City once again, as he reprises his role as Spider-Man.
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