Londoner's Diary: Andrew Garfield speaks out on Eton envy

4 July 2017

ANDREW Garfield, star of the hit play Angels in America, may have played Spider-Man but there’s always someone better off. Garfield, pictured, says he feels jealous of Old Etonian actors such as Eddie Redmayne and Damian Lewis, who have more confidence in life and Hollywood.

“My friends who went to Eton who are actors, I’m like: ‘How do you feel so at home in the world?’” he said at a National Theatre Q&A yesterday. “I have envy about it. Even if things go wrong, somehow you have a spine that’s been put in you like a steel rod. What a beautiful thing to be given. Why can’t we all have that?” Garfield, who once lived with Redmayne in LA, went to City of London Freemen’s School in Ashtead, Surrey. Less posh but still rather nice.

Garfield also revealed that he prepared for playing a gay man in Angels in America by watching US reality drag queen competition RuPaul’s Drag Race. “Every Sunday, I have eight friends over and we watch Ru — that’s my life outside of the show,” he said.

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