{"id":1048682,"date":"2026-09-07T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:04:24","slug":"andrew-garfield-faces-backlash-after-telling-billionaires-to-be-scared-of-his-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1048682\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield faces backlash after telling billionaires to be ‘scared’ of his new movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Garfield took heat on X after calling out \u201cbillionaires\u201d while discussing his new movie, \u201cThe Uprising,\u201d Thursday at a Los Angeles film screening.<\/p>\n

In a video uploaded by film review website,\u00a0The Movie Report<\/a>, Garfield and director Paul Greengrass answered questions about the historical action drama that depicts England\u2019s 1381 Peasants\u2019 Revolt. <\/p>\n

The story takes place in the aftermath of the Black Death, when heavy taxes imposed by King Richard II\u2019s court to fund the Hundred Years\u2019 War push impoverished commoners to a breaking point.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s your dream takeaway for people in the audience when they go home?\u201d an audience member asked Garfield, adding, \u201cWhat are you hoping for?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, first I hope they come and see it, first thing,\u201d Garfield responded. \u201cSecondly, I hope it\u2019s galvanizing. I hope there\u2019s some awakening that people feel \u2026 that we all feel like our own struggles are being reflected in the struggles of these characters from a distant time and place and that it could be directive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I hope that if any billionaires watch it, they\u2019re scared sh\u2013less,\u201d Garfield added.<\/p>\n

\"MovieAndrew Garfield took heat on X after calling out \u201cbillionaires\u201d while discussing his new movie, \u201cThe Uprising,\u201d Thursday at a Los Angeles film screening. Axel\u00f0\u00a6\/X<\/p>\n

Garfield\u2019s remarks sparked swift backlash, with critics highlighting the substantial wealth the movie star has accumulated throughout his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first heard they were making a\u00a0period film\u00a0about Wat Tyler, I was pretty excited. But the more Andrew Garfield talks, the more it sounds like it\u2019s just going to be socialist garbage,\u201d said Rick Davis, an associate pastor at Providence Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Garfield plays a fictional lead character named Ploughman in the film, while actor Cosmo Jarvis portrays historical rebel leader Wat Tyler).<\/p>\n

Spencer Pratt, a former candidate for mayor in Los Angeles, pointed out what he viewed as irony in Garfield\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

\"AndrewGarfield\u2019s remarks sparked swift backlash, with critics highlighting the substantial wealth the movie star has accumulated throughout his career. Axel\u00f0\u00a6\/X<\/p>\n

\u201cYou mean\u2026like the billionaires who greenlight your movies and stroke all your multi-million dollar paychecks? Or they good?\u201d Pratt wrote. He added, \u201cIronically, Garfield just got paid like $5M for playing billionaire Sam Altman in Artificial.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHilarious that world-famous, multi, multi millionaire Andrew Garfield is cosplaying as a put upon member of the working class,\u201d Substack columnist John William Sherrod posted.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore billionaires were involved in making this than will probably ever watch it,\u201d Noam Blum, chief technology officer at Tablet Magazine also posted.<\/p>\n

Garfield has starred in major blockbuster films including \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d \u201cHacksaw Ridge,\u201d and \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Garfield nor Greengrass responded to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield took heat on X after calling out \u201cbillionaires\u201d while discussing his new movie, \u201cThe Uprising,\u201d Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1048683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[568,47632,244,185,171,14107,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1048682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-billionaires","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117229433445904430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}