Andrew Garfield Says He's Gay Whout the Physil Act | Time

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• ANDREW GARFIELD FAC BACKLASH AFTER SAYG 'I AM A GAY MAN RIGHT NOW JT WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT'
• ANDREW GARFIELD FACG BACKLASH FOR SAYG HE'S GAY 'WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT'
• ANDREW GARFIELD, QUEER-BAG AND THE PERILS OF 'PLAYG GAY'
• NOLTE: ANDREW GARFIELD SAYS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PORTRAY GAY CHARACTERS
• ANDREW GARFIELD SAYS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS HELPS FOSTER 'EMPATHIC IMAGATN'
• IS ANDREW GARFIELD GAY?
• ANDREW GARFIELD SAYS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS HELPS FOSTER 'EMPATHIC IMAGATN'

ANDREW GARFIELD FAC BACKLASH AFTER SAYG 'I AM A GAY MAN RIGHT NOW JT WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT'

In a 2017 Q&A panel, the actor said “I am a gay man right now, pretty much, jt whout the physil act, ” after which he faced public backlash.

Last year, Andrew Garfield ma headl for sayg he was a “gay man… whout the physil act. The actor — who is currently playg a gay man Angels Ameri — recently spoke to Out Magaze about his sexualy. Andrew Garfield Fac Backlash After Sayg 'I Am a Gay Man Right Now Jt Whout the Physil Act'.

Andrew Garfield found himself hot water on Monday wh the LGBTQ muny, after sayg, "I am a gay man right now, jt whout the physil act". Andrew Garfield has found himself hot water wh the LGBTQ muny after sayg, “I am a gay man right now, jt whout the physil act” — and revealg that he prepared for his new role as a gay man by watchg RuPl’s Drag Race wh iends. The 33-year-0ld actor is currently starrg the crilly acclaimed London revival of Tony Khner’s Angels Ameri, which he plays Prr Walter — a gay man battlg the realy of AIDS durg the height of the 1980s crisis that killed hundreds of thoands the gay muny.

ANDREW GARFIELD FACG BACKLASH FOR SAYG HE'S GAY 'WHOUT THE PHYSIL ACT'

Durg a NT Platform discsn on Monday, the Amazg Spir-Man alum talked about how he prepared for the role — admtg at first that his “big ncern” was “what right did I have to play this wonrful gay role” as a man who currently intifi as straight. “As far as I know, I am not a gay man, ” Garfield, who formerly had a high-profile relatnship wh Emma Stone, began, the Gay Tim reported.

ANDREW GARFIELD, QUEER-BAG AND THE PERILS OF 'PLAYG GAY'

“[The play is] as much voted to my iends the gay muny as is those that passed durg the epimic, ” he said. “I am a gay man right now jt whout the physil act – that’s all.

Garfield may have immersed himself gay culture, but nfg that wh the extent of gay life upset many members of the LGBTQ muny — some of whom quickly exprsed their tratn on Twter, accg Garfield of cultural appropriatn.

“Mt be nice to be able to be gay whout any of the hardships.

NOLTE: ANDREW GARFIELD SAYS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PORTRAY GAY CHARACTERS

Other ers cricized Garfield for seemgly failg to unrstand that appreciatg gay culture is not the same as experiencg the opprsn facg the LGBTQ muny now and throughout history.

“Garfield pared watchg a TV show and portrayg a gay man to beg gay whout the physil act.

No buddy, ” said one er — wh another addg Garfield had “a very limed view of what beg gay ACTUALLY is. “Playg a gay man…don’t sudnly mean he unrstands opprsn, ” a cric wrote.

ANDREW GARFIELD SAYS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS HELPS FOSTER 'EMPATHIC IMAGATN'

This isn’t the first time Garfield has found himself facg backlash om the gay muny.

'Angels Ameri' actor ed ntroversy last summer after sayg he was a gay man "whout the physil act". “I thk ’s one of the most remarkable performanc of a ntemporary gay character by a straight guy I’ve ever seen, ” Khner said.

“In the Uned Stat, at any rate, you sometim see a kd of nervons among straight actors playg gay: ‘Am I makg the character too queen? Last summer, the Amazg Spirman actor ma headl after he was quoted as sayg that he was a “gay man … jt whout the physil act. Many cricized the remark as sensive and panrg to gay male stereotyp.

IS ANDREW GARFIELD GAY?

He might be homosexual or bisexual.

He rpond, "I am a gay man right now, pretty much, jt whout the physil act, " when asked about his sexualy a Q&A panel 2017. As he said, he is sentially gay, but not entirely; that se, he may be bisexual. The actor claimed to be gay even though he dated women and did not behave a homosexual manner.

Weak statements do not allow to fer that Andrew Garfield is gay or bisexual. We need to wa until he clar himself to be gay, bi, or straight before we n be certa of his sexual preference. While answerg qutns about his role the ongog London productn of Angels Ameri, the 33-year-old actor allegedly stated that he is “a gay man right now, jt whout the physil act – that’s all, ” acrdg to Bra’s Gay Tim magaze.

ANDREW GARFIELD SAYS STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS HELPS FOSTER 'EMPATHIC IMAGATN'

Garfield plays Prr Walter — a young gay man livg wh AIDS 1980s New York Cy — the revival of the Tony Khner play, a part he said he prepared for by watchg RuPl‘s Drag Race. “As far as I know, I am not a gay man, ” he said. I adore , but a big ncern was what right do I have to play this wonrful gay role?

In an terview about his role as Prr Walter the Natnal Theatre’s current productn of Angels Ameri, Andrew Garfield beme the latt male celebry to suggt that he might be gay. Asked about playg a gay man livg wh Aids, the actor joked that the experience had practilly ma him a gay man himself, “jt whout the physil act”. ” He went on to clarify that, as far as he knows, he’s not a gay man, but add, “maybe I’ll have an awakeng later my life, which I’m sure will be wonrful, and I’ll get to explore that part of the garn” Garfield’s ments ma their way on to Twter, they were wily rid as silly and vacuo.

Garfield add that when he was offered the role, he felt he had no right to play gay one of the 20th century’s sgle most important works of LGBT art. Angels Ameri, of urse, is a two-part epic that chronicl the liv of several gay men as they navigate Reagan’s Ameri and the Aids epimic. This even has s own ter neologism: queer-bag, practiced by the lik of Jam Fran and Nick Jonas, who their half-hearted outreach to the gay muny have generally been received wh Lane (Roy Cohn) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Belize) Angels In Ameri.

Photograph: Helen MaybanksFor Jonas, this nsisted maly of playg a gay wrtler on TV, showg up at Manhattan gay clubs to bare his abdomals (and promote a new, edgier album), and admtg to watchg Mariah Carey on the Home Shoppg Network.

“I like to thk that I’m gay my art and straight my life, ” he told FourTwoNe magaze.

“Although, I’m also gay my life up to the pot of terurse, and then you uld say I’m straight. So I gus pends on how you fe gay.

Other tim, ’s a cynil attempt to acce whatever cultural pal or fanbase may e wh beg gay – although, if any of the straight actors had actually grown up intifyg as LGBT, they’d know that ’s not all fun and drag. ”Straight actors have long played gay, wh often spellbdg rults (Sean Penn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, et al). The problem is the notn that beg gay is a kd of method actg, a liftyle to which actors dip their to and then promptly dry off.

Of urse, playg queer characters the actors seek out ways to empathize wh an experience of which they’re not faiar, but embodyg a queer person for a role no more mak them gay than playg Temple Grand ma Claire Dan shows such as Sherlock and Riverdale have been cricized for queer-bag too, although the fict ntexts, manifts maly as the vague, often unrealized suggtn that a character might be gay or “heteroflexible”, and serv to urt a subset of LGBT fans and then ultimately disappot them. And spe signifint stris, a gay sex scene on Amerin Gods, the televisn adaptatn of Neil Gaiman’s novel, was nsired groundbreakg, monstratg how srcely we’re shown pictns of gay timacy.

That name-brand actors of Fran or Garfield’s stature so wantonly flirt wh this prospect – while always reag om actually g out as gay or even bisexual – suggts they do maly to get a rise out of their admirers.

Garfield should have known that a theatril turn as Prr Walter and a Drag Race bge-watch wh iends do not a gay man make. Andrew Garfield has rpond to the backlash of his claratn that he is gay "jt whout the physil act. "In a Q&A tied to the London productn of Angels Ameri, the 33-year-old actor raised eyebrows, after he reflected on what "right" he, a straight actor, had to play the gay, HIV-posive lead of Prr Walter Tony Khner's acclaimed play about the AIDS crisis.