“I had to trust that it was the right thing and Tony had asked me and maybe if he’d asked me, it was the right thing,” Garfield went on to say. I adore it, but a big concern was what right do I have to play this wonderful gay role?” “Maybe I’ll have an awakening later in my life, which I’m sure will be wonderful and I’ll get to explore that part of the garden, but right now I’m secluded to my area, which is wonderful as well. “As far as I know, I am not a gay man,” he said.
When responding to a question about how he prepared for his “Angels in America” role, the 33-year-old Brit discussed his own sexuality, saying he wouldn’t rule out a same-sex relationship, the Gay Times reported at the time. At the time, he said he watched a lot of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and that he’s “a gay man…without the physical act.” Andrew Garfield is defending himself after coming under fire earlier this month when he explained how he prepared for his role in the London production of “Angels in America,” where he plays a gay man with HIV.
