How was the right side of the void over there?

Welcome.

Like, this is your house.

Welcome to my void.

You're very poised, almost awkwardly.

I'm ready.

When did we first meet?

Do you remember when we actually first met?

Yeah.

Um because we didn't have any scenes together obviously in that film, the social network.

You and Jesse were so busy on that movie and I was obviously in for four seconds and I remember having sitting down with you guys when you were having lunch one day and you asked me loads of questions and you were really nice.

Was I?

Yeah.

Everything.

And Jesse didn't acknowledge me.

He was probably in character.

He was probably overwhelmed by the beauty by your beauty.

I was your only friend.

Get one friend.

But then I remember seeing you at a party, I think it was at the Oscars or something.

You were just so lovely and energetic and kind of excited to connect.

I think that's the first time.

I didn't remember that.

I can't believe you remember that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was sober.

There's no insinuation, feels like there was, there's no implication that I'm making that was when, like, Mark Townsend who's here and does my hair used to put pieces of hair in my hair, you know, to make it look full and at those parties, I'd probably get a little drunk and then just like, take them out and put them in people's pockets.

Like men's jacket pockets because they're so annoying and it just like, find a place to put them why men's jacket pocket because they're so available.

Okay, rather than like doing some kind of thing of like, I'm going to get him in trouble with his no, no, no, no, no.

It would be like, can you hold this for me?

I'll get it later and then I'd forget.

Okay, so people would wake up with your non hair, fake hair, fake hair in that pocket.

Yeah, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Am I right in thinking that social network was your first film?

Yes, that's crazy.

Did you come in nervous or did you come in kind of just open?

You know, I was so nervous, you know, like before you shoot anything, I like don't sleep and you kind of like that hollow, nervous shaky feeling.

Yeah, it was the best.

So funny.

So it's a weird story, I probably shouldn't say this, but I was accidentally brought into Justin's doesn't timberlake of of stage screen and pop star fame was brought into his trailer accidentally and I was like, this isn't my trailer.

And I saw some of his homework, like a board with like, like cue cards and like some of his like internal choices and substitution ins and you were like, oh no, I should leave, but you didn't read all of it.

I was like, oh, I must leave and as I leave, I must let my eyes linger for as long as possible as I leave, because I mean of course, because it's like, it's just there and thank God it wasn't anything bad?

It was only kind of cool.

You know, I'm really bad person actually in retrospect, there was one thing I was like, oh, that's so cool.

Like what an amazing moment that I get to like, because I admire adjusting so much as a pop star and it's like a musician and a dancer and just like a creative person.

I'm just so fascinated by all actors processes and it was yeah, thank you.

Going on a roller coaster.

You just took me on, you shamed me and then you were excited for me and then you now have you accepted my humanity?

I am a woman.

Yeah.

You are just realize something and in real time did you realize it at the same time?

I think maybe I did.

Is it that we both worked with people who are directing us and are also performers?

That's so weird, Spooky, so weird.

Yeah, yeah, but that's right because of Maggie Gyllenhaal and lin Manuel Miranda, Thank you.

That's his name.

I had a year to learn how to sing and to learn piano and to, you know, get the choreography down and to study john to really get into immerse myself in this amazing man.

The amount of people that want to keep his spirit alive, enabled us to get all of the information and all of the subjective experiences that people had with him and it was, I love that.

Have you done that before?

You have you played someone real that that has, what was that?

I did a film called Our Friend and I played a woman who lived in this really small town in Alabama and we shot the movie in this town and everyone knew her and like every single shop owner and restaurant and they'd say she sat here and she would order.

This was a woman Yeah, she was just like a sparkle.

We were all messed up.

You saw us, There's something about Maggie who is like a real truth seeking actor and now a real truth seeking director who knows what it feels like to be an actor.

Acting especially a woman, especially like on a beach in a bathing suit and you know, doing like dark things and thinking and feeling dark things.

She created a really safe place.

That's not something that can be artificial.

It comes from like being genuinely loved and genuinely scene by your director, which I think is so rare and it comes from genuine experience as well.

Like proper bone deep empathy and care, which is the greatest gift.

Gosh, I want to work with her.

You should Yeah.

And same and same with Lynn, I don't think he'll ever want to work with me.

Why do you say that I get really nervous singing in front of people.

I was the same.

But like yeah, you just start peeling the onion and you get through it.

I don't know what I want to do.

I don't want to, I don't want to be an onion.

This is the life, this is life, this is life, This is maybe more personal question.

But like how you have to have such good boundaries in your life and with an audience in order to carry on being naked on screen, whether it's literal or otherwise, like that is such a and I know it's something that I think about all the time to keep, to keep myself sacred, to keep my life sacred so that I can feel free to go and carry on giving myself to my work.

Well it takes a lot to be private now.

Like so much effort every day.

Yeah, you don't do certain things or go certain places.

Someone said, hey, you're the guy from the thing.

I'm like no, I look, I look like him and then we can have an actual conversation, but then sometimes I'm, I'm very just like, yeah, I am, I'm going to disappoint you now, you know what I mean?

Why do you feel like you would disappoint them?

Because I think I think about me and tom Hanks right Me too.

I think about you all the time, but it's a thing of like, I know that Tom Hanks is just a person, but to me he's he is my hero.

Yeah.

Have you ever met him?

I have and he didn't disappoint, No, he doesn't, but quite the contrary, I would like, not in a bad, not like a self flagellating way.

It's more just like, I give myself permission to be ordinary to be a person too.

But don't you think that that would make people feel that you're more grounded and more of a human than a lot of the time?

It does do that.

If someone's open to me being a person, it's, we have a lovely conversation.

But then there are some people that don't want, don't want that.

They want, they want you to start climbing up the walls.

They want the mickey mouse, They want the kind of that Yeah, exactly.

Do you ever feel bad when you lie to someone that you're not who you are?

Never, never, you don't ever feel guilty being like, oh, I should have just said, Yeah, that's who I am.

No, never.

If someone's like, hey, are you, are you Andrew Garfield?

And I can tell by the way the energy with which they're asking if if I am the Andrew Garfield that they're looking for or if they're actually asking if I'm me.

So it makes sense.

Like I'm me and then there's this thing Andrew Garfield that people can get agitated about all kind of like excited about.

And if they're asking in that way, I'm like, no, I'm not that, so actually I don't feel like I'm lying.

If they, if they, if someone comes up to me and I can feel that they're just going to ask me about something I've done or like to say thank you for a film that they like, if it's like, hey, you Andrew Garfield, I'll be like yes.

And then they'll be like, hey, I like that date if you, if I like as if I was a blacksmith in the village and is like, hey, are you the blacksmith?

If it's that energy, I'm like, yeah, I'm the blacksmith.

And then they're like, hey, I really like that gate that you made on the edge of town.

It's got a nice hinge.

It doesn't squeak.

It's good upkeep, thank you for that gate.

I'm like, that's made my day because I put a lot of work into that gate and I like it too.

So thanks man.

Do you ever lie and say no, I'm not Andrew Garfield?

No.

Usually I say yes I am.

Andrew Garfield.

And then they're like, people like, do you ever get the people that go like, hey, where do I know you from?

What do I know you from?

And you're like, I don't know, well what have you been in?

And you're like, what am I gonna pull up my imdb page, like list movies I've done.