Andrew Garfield Says Playing Spider-Man Broke His Heart

Andrew Garfield has revealed that playing Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 broke his heart.

He revealed this during a recent interview with The Guardian.

You can check out what Garfield had to say about his experience playing the wall-crawler below.

Andrew Garfield’s heart was broken by playing Spider-Man

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Here’s what Andrew Garfield had to say about playing Spider-Man:

I got my heart broken a little bit … I went from being a naïve boy to growing up. How could I ever imagine that it was going to be a pure experience? There are millions of dollars at stake and that’s what guides the ship. It was a big awakening and it hurt.

However, he did go on to reveal that there were also great bits of the experience that he’ll cherish forever:

Comic-Con in San Diego is full of grown men and women still in touch with that pure thing the character meant to them. [But] you add in market forces and test groups and suddenly the focus is less on the soul of it and more on ensuring we make as much money as possible. And I found that – find that – heartbreaking in all matters of the culture. Money is the thing that has corrupted all of us and led to the terrible ecological collapse that we are all about to die under.

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