I adore it, but a big concern was what right do I have to play this wonderful gay role?” He went on, “Maybe I’ll have an awakening later in my life, which I’m sure will be wonderful, and I’ll get to explore that part of the garden, but right now I’m secluded to my area, which is wonderful as well.
Later in the conversation he clarified, “As far as I know, I am not a gay man.” Andrew Garfield was roundly mocked on Thursday for saying during a panel discussion that - after preparing for a role as a gay man in the play “Angels in America” by watching “every series of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ ” - he is a “gay man right now just without the physical act.”