Andrew Garfield has revealed that he's going to take a break from acting.
The Amazing Spider-Man actor has had a busy start to the year by starring in The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Tick, Tick … Boom!.
And now his next role is in Under the Banner of Heaven, where Garfield plays a Mormon detective investigating the brutal murder of a mother (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter.
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Talking to Variety, the 38-year-old, said he is 'going to rest for a little bit'.
Garfield added: "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 awhile.
"Because as you know, that is a washing machine, that awards season."
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He went on to say: "I need to just be a bit ordinary for a while."
In the past few years, the actor's personal life has also been hit with tragedy after the passing of his mother Lynn, a teacher from Essex, in 2019.
Speaking at the time, Garfield said: "It’s so strange because it feels very unique when it is happening, it feels like, ‘oh my God, I’m the only person that’s ever lost their mother’, because it does feel so lonely and precise.
“It feels just like a precise agony and for a period of time I didn’t want to, and I wasn’t able to, do anything.
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“I was kind of wasted and the world didn’t make sense, and it still doesn’t.
"Because I miss her greatly, and I hope it never makes sense because I always want to miss her.”
He continued: “She was proud of my achievements but she was much more proud of how I treated someone in Sainsbury’s or Asda that was checking us out with our groceries.
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“She was someone that was about the small kindnesses in life."
“If I’m short-tempered with someone, if I’m having a rough day and someone walks past me and they’re nice to me and I’m gruff, I will feel a little hand on my shoulder.
“It will be my mother’s hand, and I hear her say, ‘Andrew …’, and I’ll go back and I’ll say, ‘Hey, sorry, that was a bit rude of me.’
“I hope she never takes a hand off my shoulder in that way.”
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Topics: Film and TV
Anish Vij