Playing Spider-Man for two box office hit movies has Andrew Garfield frustrated with his reputation under the film, as yet another reboot is in the making.
The 32-year-old actor tells Indiewire that the pressures to get the film right and please everyone is not going to happen.
“You end up pleasing no one, or everyone just a little bit. Like, ‘Eh, that was good.’ [The films are] mass-marketed, like ‘We want 50-year-old white men to love it, gay teenagers to love it, bigot homophobes in Middle America to love it, 11-year-old girls to love it.’ That’s canning Coke,”; he says.
The “99 Homes”; actor explains that he and his team wanted to infuse soul and authenticity into the films, making it unique.
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“I understand people want to make a lot of money, and they’re going to spend a lot of money so the playpen can be as big as it was. I can’t live that way; it sounds like a prison, to be honest, living within those expectations.”
But frustrations with challenging roles will not stop Garfield in the future.
“I was well up for the challenge, and I still am,”; Garfield says. “I’m not going to shy away from something that a lot of people are going to see. F**k it, bring it on, life’s short.”
