“I am a gay man right now just without the physical act – that’s all.” “This is my life outside of this play,” he said. He revealed that he would watch RuPaul’s Drag Race on days off to prepare for the role, and suggested that the show was responsible for the bulk of his research. I adore it.”īut this is when Garfield’s comments started to get more and more controversial. The Amazing Spider-Man star and Emma Stone’s ex readily admitted that he is not gay, so when he was offered the part he immediately questioned his “right… to play this wonderful gay role,” according to the Gay Times. “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. Garfield is currently the lead in a London production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, a critically acclaimed play about the gay community set during the most frightening stage of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Andrew Garfield is facing major criticism after claiming that he is a “gay man right now without the physical act,” and that his research for playing a gay man in a recent role consisted of binge watching RuPaul’s Drag Race.
