How Andrew Garfield Wants to Celebrate His SAG Nomination: Go Bowling and Hug Will Smith

Within the final 4 days, Andrew Garfield has gained a Golden Globe Award, landed on BAFTA’s “longlists” for his performances in each “tick, tick…BOOM!” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and obtained a Display Actors Guild Award nomination for the previous movie – all whereas “Spider-Man: No Means Residence,” wherein he seems, continues to dominate the field workplace.

It has, in different phrases, been a really busy, very crowded time. “I simply must take them separately, I believe, and respect that I’m alive and respiratory and that I get to behave,” Garfield instructed TheWrap on Wednesday morning, shortly after the SAG nominations have been introduced. “I’m attempting my greatest to be current for it and actually benefit from the second and really feel the power of it – and to ask myself, ‘What do I need to do with this power?’”

After all, that half is sophisticated by the truth that awards season has as soon as once more gone digital, after a flurry of in-person occasions earlier than the Omicron variant made gatherings too dangerous. “It’s clearly modified issues, nevertheless it’s the identical with every part in life proper now,” he stated. “We’re all longing to be in rooms collectively safely – what are we however our connections?

“It could be great if I might share this in a room with my castmates and family and friends,” he stated. “I imply, I’d like to go bowling tonight and get an In-N-Out burger to have fun, however we now have to simply accept the place we’re and put security first.”

And the actor would additionally wish to get along with one in all his fellow nominees – as a result of for years, Garfield’s go-to karaoke track has been Will Smith’s “Miami,” and now he’s going up in opposition to Smith, who was nominated for his lead efficiency in “King Richard.”

“How do you start to compute that?” he stated, laughing. “He’s a cultural icon. All these actors within the class are cultural icons.” (The others are Benedict Cumberbatch for “The Energy of the Canine,” Denzel Washington for “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and Javier Bardem for “Being the Ricardos.”)

“It’s form of surreal and humbling, and I’m praying that we get to be in particular person as a result of I need to give Will Smith a hug.”

A pause. “And Denzel, too.”