We were talking about, ‘How do you prepare for something so important and so big?’ and I was basically saying, ‘I dive in as fully as I possibly can.'” It’s a love letter to the LGBTQ community. “That discussion was about this play and how deeply grateful I am that I get to work on something so profound. “That’s of course not what I meant at all,” Garfield told the BBC’s Newsbeat. In a new interview, Garfield said his words were taken out of context. He later noted that he was “not a gay man,” which only added to the backlash. The actor, 33, who’s starring in a London production of “Angels in America,” told a group of people that he prepared for the role by watching “every series of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’,” adding that he is a “gay man right now just without the physical act.” After upsetting the gay community with comments he made during a panel discussion, Andrew Garfield wants to clarify what he meant.
