{"id":651753,"date":"2026-08-23T05:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/651753\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T05:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:07:18","slug":"andrew-garfield-makes-honest-admission-about-leaving-hollywood-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/651753\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield makes honest admission about leaving Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Garfield has opened up about his desire to escape the Hollywood spotlight one day.<\/a><\/p>\n

The <\/a>Amazing Spider-Man<\/a> star<\/a> has spent much of the past year working on back-to-back projects, including the new Enid Blyton adaptation The Magic Faraway Tree, the action period drama The Uprising and Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman biopic, <\/a>Artificial.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a new interview with Variety<\/a>, Garfield, 43, was asked if he ever thought about leaving his career in the public eye behind.<\/p>\n

“All the time,” Garfield admitted.<\/p>\n

“I’ve worked a lot this year. I’ve done like 11 months, 12 months, straight back-to-back projects. I want people to see those projects, so I’m gonna have to tell people about them. I get that. But if I had my druthers, people would just see them, and I could go whittle wood in the Somerset countryside and think about what the birds might be doing.”<\/p>\n

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Andrew Garfield has admitted he thinks about leaving Hollywood ‘all the time’ (Getty)<\/p>\n

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Garfield currently stars in ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ alongside Claire Foy (Entertainment Film Distributors)<\/p>\n

Earlier in the interview, Garfield spoke about fulfilling his dreams as an actor. “I still have dreams, but they’re slightly more earthbound than my previous ones,” he said.<\/p>\n

“They’re maybe a bit more philosophical and existential than achievement-based. Now I think it’s more I want a certain quality of life. I want a certain quality of relationships with my family and friends. I want a certain quality of relationship with myself.”<\/p>\n

The Hacksaw Ridge star does have form when it comes to taking a break from the spotlight. In 2022, following the release of three major films (The Eyes of Tammy Faye, tick, tick\u2026 BOOM! and Spider-Man: No Way Home), Garfield revealed he was taking a career hiatus.<\/p>\n

“I need to recalibrate and reconsider what I want to do next and who I want to be and just be a bit of a person for a while,” he told Variety at the time.<\/p>\n

“Because as you know, that is a washing machine, that awards season. I need to just be a bit ordinary for a while.”<\/p>\n

His absence from the screen lasted roughly two years following the release of Hulu’s true-crime series Under the Banner of Heaven in 2022 before he officially returned to lead the romantic drama We Live in Time, which premiered in late 2024.<\/p>\n

The Magic Faraway Tree is out now in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield has opened up about his desire to escape the Hollywood spotlight one day. The Amazing Spider-Man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[24639,18,117,1239,19,17,275363,327,308,190454],"class_list":["post-651753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magic-faraway-tree","tag-movies","tag-sam-altman","tag-the-magic-faraway-tree"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117143092869496223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}