Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Andrew Garfield

Episode Date: September 29, 2026

Andrew Garfield is a real tenderoni. Amy hangs with the movie star and talks about why Munich has the best felt, getting too intense while playing Werewolf, and whether or not he has long arms.Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew GarfieldExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; social producer Bridget Geerlings; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and bookers Kat Spillane and Paige GarbariniOriginal Music: Amy Miles Visit uber.com/safety to learn more. Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://Allstate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Andrew is just the best, a real tenderoni and hilarious and talented and star of film and Broadway. And we are going to get into so many things today. We're going to talk about how Munich has the best felt. We're going to talk about having that competitive spirit, especially when it comes to board games. We're going to talk about being method, but not being. a jerk. And we're going to talk about his new movie, The Uprising, which is out now and looks incredible like all of the stuff that Andrew does. So we're very, very excited to get

started, but we always start our episodes by speaking to somebody who knows our guest, who has worked with our guest, has good things to say about our guests behind their back. And we're going to talk to a legend, Lynn Manuel Miranda. You know him from, oh, I don't know, Hamilton and Moana and the upcoming Warriors musical and five other million things that he's one ten e-gots for Lynn?

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You did? I had a nightmare that like you invited me on but you didn't, I could tell you didn't really want me to be on. Like someone had you and you were like, come in, I guess. Oh, that's making me nauseous. Like you were very unenthusiastic about it and I'm like, uh, sit down, I guess. And it wasn't your usual set. It was just like some apartment where I was like, I was like a pity guest.

Oh, that's giving everybody the chills in here. So that is a, that is a proper stress dream. Woke up in a sweat. I can handle a lot of things I cannot handle not being a good hang with you. Oh my God. I'm so sorry that I was that way in your dream. in real life, and we are awake, and I can't wait to get you in here. I am such a fan of your work.

I would love to talk to you and would be so happy to be talking to you. Oh, my goodness, gracious. Yes, yes, yes. And so happy to be talking to you today. It looks like you're in some kind of studio. There's a piano behind you. Yes, we are in day two of our workshop for our next musical. Warriors!

Warriors! Come out to play. That's the one. So Issa Davis and I are here in the room. There are actors learning songs in the next room. There must be no better feeling than like working with the piano and like hearing people sing in the other room and just the workshopping of it all. Yeah. Well, it's the thing of like other people.

You get the solitude of writing and then you also get to like bring in a song and then people who sing much better than you sound beautiful on it. And it's, it's, you know, I had so much fun with your episode with Groff, who is. also like one of my closest friends because just the joy off him is like we're in the play. We get to be in the school play. And we're all still chasing that high. Yes. Well, I feel that way, you know, about you, Lynn, like I feel I know that everybody that works with you feels that way. Like you're such a collaborator. You love the process. You love making things better. You know, letting the best idea win. Like you can feel that. And also, You're a fan.

Like you've never stopped being a fan of the thing that you're doing. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, no. It's, I mean, it's why I had so much fun when I was on S&L. It was, it's the school play on steroids. It's like a supercharged version of the thing that got me hooked on this art form of like, we get to make it. And we get to make something bigger than any of us could make alone, I think is the big thing.

Yes, so well said. So well said. And you got to work with sweet Andrew Garfield. Sweet, sweet Andrew Garfield. First of all, congratulations on Tick, T Boom. What a beautiful film. It makes my life that you even know what that is and have seen it. Of course.

I loved the performance. Loved your direction. What incredible cast. Can we talk about it just for a second? Because I know it was, it's personal material. It's also about a person's life. And Andrew is kind of actor who's played a lot of real people. as I've been looking at his career.

And like, could you imagine even a more considerate and nicer person to, like, take somebody's real life into their hands? But can you just tell me how did you guys come together to make that? How did that happen? Sure. I, you know, most of my familiarity with Andrew's work was actually theater. Like, I was lucky enough to see him in Death of a Salesman with Philip Seymour Hoffman. and he was unreal in that.

And then I saw him in Angels in America, both parts, which is like, it's a day. It's your day. You go to the matinee to see part one. You eat dinner. You see part two. They're both three hours long. And I didn't know whether he had a musical bone in his body, but it's such an endurance test that play.

And he was so magnificent in it that I was just like, this guy can do anything. I just thought, I don't know if he can sing, but I think he can do anything. Yeah. Andrew and I had like exchanged an email or two in our lives. He was a fan of Hamilton. And so I said, can we go out to like dinner before your performance? He was doing Angels on Broadway at the time.

And I took him out to sushi and I told him about the movie we were working on. And I said, can you sing? and he said, what are you making this? And I go, not for a year. And he goes, then I can sing. Amazing.

And I was like, oh my God, he's going to learn. Well, that's kind of like the theme of what I want to talk to him about today is like he works very hard. He's a really hard worker

and takes, I think, a lot of pride in that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. He wants the work. He wants the discipline. And like, you have to be a monk. to do eight shows a week.

Like, you actually have to, like, know when you're eating, know exactly what you're putting in your body so that you are at your peak at 7 p.m., 8 p.m. that night. He has played a monk. And, like, lives it. Like, it truly lives it. And you know how I feel about Broadway? Absolutely too many shows.

I've said this. Well, to quote you in Wet Hot American Summer, theater is now, and it's you. That is true. which I watch maybe once a month. I watch that speech to myself. Yep, it was very obtuse. Yeah, it makes perfect sense.

It's now and it's you. I mean, you basically played me in that, me at 14 in that movie, like, guys, this is serious. And then you learn, well, you learn, oh, no one wants to work with that person. Like, your job is to make the most fun room possible

so that people choose doing the play over basketball, over debating. Like, no, no, no, actually this is the most fun place to be. Not guys. We're going to work steps. Story of my life. Story of my life, which is just like, just chill out. Chill out.

Chill out. Just pump the brakes on whatever you're saying. Okay, so do you have a question you think I should ask, Andrew, today? Anything big, small? Well, my question, yeah, my question comes with a story. which is that, you know, famously, Andrew, like, learned to sing, like, took a year and then came out on the other end and was just, like, an amazing singer for my movie. And there was a sequence we had to shoot that was a swimming pool scene. Jonathan Larson, like, would swim to get his ideas,

and he wrote this great stream of consciousness song, and he gets the idea while he's doing laps. And I, you know, had three days in the actual pool Larson swam in in the village. And, you know, had a stunt double for all of the like complicated underwater photography, had a special underwater photographer. And then I found out Andrew is basically Michael Phelps. Like his dad is a swim instructor. That's right. And Andrew swam better than my stunt double.

So my question is like, one, what are the other superpowers you have that a director hasn't tapped yet? And one, like what feels like even too much of a challenge? he learned to sing for me. Martin Scorsese, like, threw him into the wild. Like, he's really taken on some, I think he gets very excited by the challenges. Like, what's one where, what's something that really scares him that he would still probably do? That's a great question.

And I think he's going to love it because I think he's very driven exactly by what you said, by the challenge of what to do next. And, yeah, and I never know what he's going to do next. It's always really interesting. I mean, his new film that's out is about a peasant revolt. Yeah, and then he goes from that to Sam Altman. Like, it's crazy. I know, crazy.

Well, Lynn, I loved talking to you. I think we're going to have a very good time and not a scary dream time when we see each other. Thank you. I appreciate that. And thanks for stepping away. Absolutely. Have fun with Andrew. He's a lovey, lovey, love.

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You know, smell is my number one, my number one sense. Sense. I'm the best at it. What do you think is your best of the five senses? What is your best? What's my best sense? What's my most accomplished sense? We've got smell.

Remind me of the other. Okay, we've got smell. We've got hearing. Ah, yep. We've got sight. We've got touch. And what's the other one? Taste.

Oh, yeah. I always forget taste. Are you going to be humble about this? Don't be. And I don't mean to brag at the same time. I'm kind of trying to be neutral. I love a brag. I'd say touch.

Dang. Or the best date ever. So do you, okay, let me ask you a touch question. Yeah, please too. I enjoy, I enjoy, I enjoy, I like how things feel. Like, I like a texture. Yes, you're a tactile. I'm a tactile person as well.

Yeah. When you're shopping for clothes, do you do, what I do, which is you just, you go like a bit. You just go like this. For real, if it's not soft, I'm not interested. You can you sniff it and then you touch. Fabric. Yeah.

You know what I love? Yes. Can I tell you anyway? Yes. Felt. I fucking love felt. Fucking hell. What are we going?

Hold on. Stand by. Let me say I can sniff out the felt. I know where the felt is in this room. I'm like a divining rod for felt. Hold on. Okay. We're recording in New York. I have more felt in L.A.

Okay. But. Yeah, L.A. is much more felt friendly. This is a fake cheeseburger. Open that up. Oh, my God. This is a, that's a hard felt. It's a little hard.

Yeah, it's a little hard. This felt is not, it's not Munich felt. I was just in Munich. Munich felt. I told you I like felt Say more There's a Munich Munich is known for its felt making

That's all I got And it has like specific Beautively made felt So I was shooting in Munich This is a great podcast story I was shooting in Munich Yes And I didn't have much time

On my hands I was shooting like intensely But the time I did have Yeah Was spent in the felt store I know Were you playing somebody who to felt? No, I was playing a peasant.

Right. This is this new movie, The Uprising. It's called The Uprising. We want to talk about it, and I want to talk about the fact that you are, look at you, you really do like, touch is a very important sense. I would never lie to you about something so vital. Sorry, but I just want to indulge your touch fantasy here, which is look at this. What are you got? Another she's further.

This felt is too hard for me. Yeah, sorry, that wasn't good. Ooh. Give that a squeeze. Oh, that's lovely. That's what she said. That's really lovely. I'm really glad it doesn't squeak.

I'm glad it doesn't squeak because I'm an adult. You don't mean. Yeah, you're a mature lady. I don't need a dog toy. I don't need to get excited by sounds in the way that a dog might. No. There's actually no worse feeling than when you bring home a toy for a child or a dog and you realize that it squeaks.

You're like, oh, fuck. Why don't I check that? What's cool about this? Yeah. Yeah. What's cool about this? Let me smell it while you talk about it. We never smelled it.

It's not bad. You know, sometimes you smell like they come. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You all know. You all know. You all know. You know what we're about to say.

You guys know how your fake cheeseburgers sometimes smell in your office. You know. We, Andrew Garfield is here. That's all the time we have. But you're talking about. The uprising. I want to talk to you about this because I'm, okay, I've been thinking about my theme for you. Theme.

Yeah, about what to talk to you about today because I feel like we could talk forever. And I love talking to you. Me too. Same. I love this, by the way. What you're doing here is so beautiful. And I'm like, it's about time. There's another podcast.

Yeah. I know there wasn't enough. Weirdly. Weirdly. They were like, we have room for one more? I just said one more and I was like, p. No, but like if anyone should in this world. have a bath this room.

Thank you for that. It's really fun. Yeah, man. Really fun. And I've been paying attention to, as I've been thinking about and prepping for today, about your work and your life and you. And I'm fascinated by your love of hard work. You just love to work hard. Yeah, I do.

You love it. You do too. Yes, but not as much as I used to. I don't know. I have a podcast, maybe. just realizing. Sitting down with a... But your work ethic is really something.

It's very admirable. I know you care. Like, your love language feels like it's like acts of service. Like, you do things for people, right? I got you. Very funny. Yes, you're on. You're dead on.

That is how you show your passion for stuff. Your love for people. Yeah. And how you show up in your work. And you're always working so hard. And everything you're doing, you're training. You're starving. You're learning how to sing this new movie.

So it looks so hard. It looks so cold and dirty and hard. And that's all. I just want you to just take it. Take it easy. You want me to take it easier. Yeah. I'm really into your relationship to work because I think it's like, it's very admirable.

And also I think it's very, it's very, I think it's your way in. into stuff. Would you agree? Yeah, I mean, you know what I keep, because one of my favorite episodes that you've done is with Cole, Escola. Oh. It is heaven.

It's a heaven conversation. And just the running bit of, I just like playing. It's just all, it's all play to me. Like the play is the thing. And like, honestly, I'm just like,

I can never go on Amy's podcast because I will be the guy actually saying that for real. I know what you mean. I know what you mean. It's really impossible. You guys have made it impossible. to have a serious conversation about creativity.

Okay, but I think I can speak for, I know what you mean, but I think I can speak for myself and I'd like to speak for call. Okay. But I'm very interested in what motivates people. Yeah, sure, of course. Like how people move through the world, and that's the coolest thing about these convos. Yeah. Were you always like a hard worker?

What did work look like in your house, in your family? Yeah, no, it's, yeah. Oh, boy. I know we're going to. No, I know. Do you want to hold something? Want to touch something to squeeze something? Is there any felt?

That's softer. There's no, no, there's no Munich felt. There's no Munich fell in here? I know it's disgusting studio. Weird. Jenna, get the Munich felt. Bring out the Munich felt, Jenna! Jenna!

I, so yes. You worked hard, okay, fine. I'll just ask you. No, no, no, no. I really love what your, I just, and ironically, tucked my hair behind my ears. By the way, your hair isn't incredible. We're in the same position.

You have. Your hair is great. Propetia. Great. You know what? People should know that. I don't. Listen. Every man I know is on propitia. And also. You just outed every single man in your life that you know, including your young nephews and sons. I don't know. Like, like every single male.

Propecia is incredible. And thank you for saying that you have naturally very thick hair. You always have. You have, congrats. Incredible. And I bet you grew it like that. bed you don't even comb it in the morning and it looks incredible. I lied about the propitia. It's just all natural. I'm just trying to be relatable to other guys, Albert. But your hair looks great. But anyway, sorry. You talked in. You talked to find your ear. I'm going to say something controversial.

Sometimes, like, sometimes people are great. Mm-hmm. Do you know what I mean? Like, sometimes people are really great. And I know that's a hot take. That is controversial. Andrew, but that's so you. I mean, there's a, there's a, like, there's a real humanity to the stuff you do. There's also,

You're just a delightful person to be around. You're real tenderoni. I have a tenderoni. I'll co-sign that. You're real tenderly. You and me both. Yes. And people are great.

So say more. Some people, some human beings can can be really wonderful and add beautiful things to the earth and to the world. And I guess I'm curious as well about what is it that makes us feel compelled to do that? My mother was one of those people in every single moment of her life. I had this image of her now that she's passed. And it came very like a flash in a dream or like in a waking. I don't know what it was. But I had this image of her being reunited with her tribe after she passed.

And it made sense to me why she could be so hard on herself in Carnet when she was alive. I was like, oh, you knew you were meant to be in a thousand different places at once giving goodness to people. And you knew in some unconscious way that you were being restricted by this vessel of a body, by the vessel of restriction of time and space. So when she passed, I don't know, like, I don't even have had this experience with someone who's passed. But it's like, in the first month or two, I felt more connected. to her than I ever felt connected to her when she was incarnate when she was alive, alive. Let's put it in quotation marks. I do believe that she's here right now and she's everywhere all at once. I do believe that and I have a knowing of that. So there was something

about seeing, maybe seeing my mother in a very specific kind of hard work that was so naturally occurring for her. And I was always someone in the same way that you just, did with me. I was always someone with her was like, just take a trip. Yeah. Just relax. You're enough. You're the most beautiful angel on earth. You can give yourself what you give to others and it doesn't make you selfish. It doesn't make you any which way. But after she passed, I had this real understanding of like, oh no, that was just inherently who she, I don't know whether it was nurture or not. I have no idea, but it was just the activating, the animating spirit of her, of her essential nature, of her essential being.

And I guess you could call that hard work, or you could, I don't know, there's something otherworldly about it. As I say, after she passed, I was like, oh, she's back. She's actually back. She's back where she's meant to be running around with her like good angel brigade, like giving people who need a miracle, a miracle, like times a million. I could just feel it. And I was just one of the people that she was hanging out with.

Beautiful. I mean, the idea that her spirit and one spirit can be kind of like released once they leave their body. Just the idea that somebody is bigger than their body. Yes. And that's so interesting that you talk about your mom when I ask you that question because there is something in your work that feels really not only curious but very unbridled. Like you like to kind of go, go places. As I'm trying to like psychoanalyze, and again, I am no therapist, but I do feel like I am.

And that's what this podcast is about. Again, she says again. And I will give you a prescription at the end of this. No, but I think it's also very interesting that you talk, even though you're British in many ways, you were born in the U.S., and you talk, like I find you toggle back and forth between those things culturally very easy. And I had a question for you, which is, what do you think is the most American thing about you? My love of hamburgers. I like, I love hamburgers. You have very youthful energy as a person.

You're a little brother. Yes, I have a little brother. And your older brother is a doctor. He's a heart and lung doctor in London. Oh, my God. Yeah. The good son. He's the one that made good.

Yeah. He made good. Did he always, was he all like? Yeah, he was head boy at school, was catching the swimming team. He was fucking son of a bitch. Oh, the son of a bitch How many years older than you? Three years older

Yeah, yeah I was fucked I was fucked from day one And he gave me meningitis Day two of my life Oh he gives He brings home menngitis And then he became a doctor

To heal you from it You really Should prescribe At the end of this And yeah I think being raised in a competitive household Is definitely a pot In like the nuts and bolts

Of like the therapy It would be like Yeah We don't feel enough The Garfield men there is a kind of competition sometimes gets a bad rap

I love competition I love games I love it too I fucking what kind of game player are you you know what I mean like do you get too intense

yes yeah me too I think you would have to ask my friends this but I would say I do I have up I can upset people yeah I have as well

I work on it because obviously like everyone wants to have a good time but when people say things like I know when people say things like who really cares I'm like, what are we doing? What do you mean?

Like, we're playing a game. Like, we have to try to win as best we can. Otherwise, you're ruining the game. Yeah. Anyone who, like, says, yeah, I'll play. And it's like, ooh. Yeah, like, this is so stupid. It's like, don't fucking play.

Yeah, don't show up. And also, I'm treating you. I'm being rough on you because I believe in you. And I love you. Yeah. For sure. I mean, I expect the best from you. Yeah.

And I want, I want you to grow. I want you to grow at at celebrity or whatever we're playing Traitors, I want you to grow up. Okay, do you like playing mafia? Yeah, well,

I play with Warwolf is the version I play. Yeah, I'm not, I'm, I'm bad at being the werewolf. Dude, me too. I'm not,

I hate, and when I get it, I'm like, oh fuck, I'm not, I know, I hate it. I hate it,

I hate the, like, lying, I hate the deception, I know. I know, and I bet I love accusing. And yes,

of course, joy with John Proctoring and also defending oneself. Of course, being like, how dare you think that I'm... Like, it was my name! You could not take my name!

And everyone's just like, drinking their beers. I'm just like wanting to go to the bathroom. Like, thou shalt not! Okay, so let's get in... I do want to ask you a couple of questions about your work, okay? I have to. Your first film, you're with Merrill Street and Cruz and Robert Redford.

How old are you then? I'm 23. you want to say? So you're coming on to that set. Like, everyone has the jitters of like any first day on any job. Like, I'm just going to be cool.

I'm just like, just don't talk too much. Like, that's what I would say. You know, to myself. Just listen more than you talk. They'll get to know you. Whatever you're saying to yourself, as you're driving to set or whatever,

what are you saying to yourself when you're approaching that set? That's a really intimidating set. That's so intimidating. Oh my God. What was it like to work with Rom of Redford? I don't know where I was telling myself. I, I, I, so first of all, Bob Redford, God rest his beautiful soul of service.

That man had a soul for service. Like what he did with Sundance and like, and what that sprung from came out. It came out of him, I think, helping out his new neighbor in Utah who was about to be foreclosed on. He's all, I'll buy your farm so you can keep it. I'm going to have to make some money out of it. And we'll set up a like a lab for young. filmmakers. So it came out of him helping out his neighbor. It's just like

he was a beautiful, beautiful man and very late all the time to everything. So I say it with love. So I'm like, I'm like, yeah, terrified and nervous and pinching myself and then Bob is four hours late and it's just

like, by that time, I'm just pissed. I'm just angry. Okay, let's talk about us. No, I wasn't really. Yeah, yeah. But right, so you're... But a lot of nerves had kind of dissipated because he was so loose and casual and he's so he was so cool and he still dressed like he was in his 20s with the double denim and he was and he didn't he wasn't aware that he was late he was just like on his own Redford time and he was famously like

I'm not like telling tales out of school sure he was like a famously late well god is fair I mean you know like he's so handsome like there's going to be something wrong with him I mean, what if he was like on time? I'm like, okay, great. So he's late. Like, he'd be a little annoyed with the guy. So he's late. He's like, I was too handsome.

I couldn't stop looking. I felt guilty. So you were feeling less nervous. It helped. And, well, he was so relaxed. Yeah, he was so relaxed. And he would shoot his own coverage first. He would shoot himself.

And then he would look at me after his first take. And he'd be like, when do you think? think. Because he was directing as well. So all my scenes were with him. And he was like, what do you think? And I was like, I'm good. It's great. Really good. He's really good. Robert Redford. And he's like, okay. Oh, that's really generous. I'll do it again. I'll do it again. And then, but yeah, tell me if you think, if you see anything that you think. And I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, that's a really interesting move, right? Because he was heaven. Trying to like. Yeah. Just make me feel like it was my set and make me feel like I was an equal. And like, it was my first movie.

Yeah. That's very nice. Oh, he was so nice. He was so beautiful. And we were. And And it was like a theater play, and I had done only theater at that point. It was a lot of dialogue, and it was like a... Well, you are a theater. You're a theater boy. I love theater. That is your first love. That is my first, like, love out.

It was like, that was like my first exit of the Truman show. You know what I mean? Like, like opening that door in the sky. And then it was like, there's a whole world out there that I had no idea existed. When you were working on that film, were you still working at Starbucks? No, no, no. You had quit Starbucks. I had Chris.

Always this weird thing sometimes when you're acting. No, I wasn't ready to fully let go of it. I wasn't like, you know, I'm not going to say that that era is over. Right. I had a little bit of a shock straight out of drama school. I did two plays in a row. And then I was like, I'm set. And I did like a Doritos commercial in Spain.

Yeah. And I'm like, that's that. I guess. Wrap it up, fellas. Like, stay in on that. Wrap it up. That's my, like, that's my kind of like the rest of my life is going to be the occasional Doritos, like, crisp commercial and great theater work.

I'm good. Yeah. And then I didn't work for a year. And then I started having to wait tables again and be a bartender and I broke up with my girlfriend at the time. So it was like a really great year of, you know, you're never safe. Yeah. Like this destabilized kind of place.

And I still have it. I'm sure that you do too, even at the top of this swanky building or not. You're like, no, I'm pretty much set. No, you know, it's funny. It's funny you say that I know what you mean. Like, I still just feel like you have to have a plan always just if everything goes away. Yeah. What's yours? Well, I mean, it's funny.

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Do you consider yourself a method actor? So the method... And if so, who am I speaking to? But it's like... But because it is... You do, you do go pretty deep. When you're playing coach, you do. You got that tricks to look in your eye.

You're looking for the clickbait headline. You're like, is he going to give me the juice? Dave, you lost all this. Wait, you studied for a year, being a monk. You go for it. I do. Are you method? Answer the question.

Are you method? It's a yes or no question. I mean, are you, though? Don't try and get Q with it. Okay, okay. But are you? But are you? No, but I want to know.

In a way, yes. But I think the term has been massively mischaracterized, misunderstood and co-opted by people that don't know. A method is basically having a method. And like the Stanislavski method, the Strasbourg method, is about trying to live truthfully under imagined circumstances. And having it feel personal, having it feel connected to something that's interior

that is not just a kind of more performative exterior abstraction. So I feel like yes, but I don't... I think there's a way of doing it that's generous. I think there's a way of accessing that work and that style of working that doesn't fuck with the rest of the cast, that doesn't fuck with the rest of the crew, that you don't have to lose a bunch of weight. That's playful.

Well, yeah. That's playful. Totally. And generous. And I, and I, my personal taste and my personal, Sydney Lumet, the great, one of my favorite filmmakers of all time, who, who seems to vanish as a director in his movies in a sense that like he let his movies be the movies rather than letting people know that he directed them.

Yes. You know what I mean? Like every movie is such a different flavor, such a different feel. Alan Parker is like that too for me. Alan Parker. I was thinking about Alan and so very, one of my favorite films of all time, Bugsie Malone, Alan Parker.

And then he does Angel Heart? Yeah. Holy fuck, you know. And so, so, so he says in his great little book making movies, I don't know if you've read, he tells a story about Paul Newman, I think. Yeah, he tells a story about Paul Newman in, what was the movie they made together?

It'll come back. But he's like, Paul Newman came with, and he did the scene and, um, Lumet was like, okay, I think we're going to reshoot this tomorrow because I think you need to find out what this scene's about inside yourself. And he comes about the next,

and there was something very personal that he was referring to. I think you know what this moment is and I think you're resisting going there. And Paul Newman came back and he did the scene and it was like one of the great, you know, scenes of any Cilumet movie.

And he describes it as personal revelation. The actor's job is personal revelation while the cameras are rolling. The actors that I respond to in the storytelling that I respond to feels like personal revelation. Yeah. And through the lens of a character, I think about like,

and I've talked about this openly about Tick-Tick Boom, which is a film I'm very proud of and I really love and I can feel, thanks. And I just, but I can talk about it because it feels very personal and also not personal at all in a way. It does feel like that kind of liminal place of letting another spirit move through

intermingling with my own spirit, but also my mother's spirit is so much in that film. But it was very, very personal because I just lost my mom and we were making this movie and it's about the shortness of life. It's about the shortness, the sacredness of life. It's about being of service.

It's about living out your own calling, your own destiny in a way, and we're talking about waiting tables and that year off. Like, how do you, you how do you hang on by hook or by crook to the note that you hear in your head that you have to follow? Like how do you play your note? How do you not fall asleep to your note, even though you're a salmon swimming upstream of a world telling you to drop it and take the nine to five

or whatever it is? You mentioned directors. You've worked with really interesting directors. you always do. I have a question that I want to ask. Fincher is one of my favorite directors. He's, I love his films. Rashida was in Social Network. I know. And I always,

and I was like, what was it like working with David Fincher? And she's, he's so incredible to work with. But I really want to know genuinely and not, I'm not like digging for some. I want to know what does the many, many takes do? How does it help you as an actor? How does it, how is it, how is it not?

frustrating or like... Can be. Yeah. Is it like I... I love it. You love it. Fucking love it. Because I love acting and I love hard work and I love sports and I love not going home

with anything left to give. And yeah, there's nothing worse as you know than going home going, I could have done that better. Yeah. It sucks to feel it, to feel like you're in bed and you're just like ruminating of like... Oh yeah. I was, my father put me through drama school. He worked so hard.

And now I've just done like a half job at like this thing that I'm so lucky to do. And so yeah, I love it. And also I find it pleasure. I just find the work really deeply pleasurable. But I love positive reinforcement. I do. I genuinely do. It works on me.

Like I don't, I don't, the challenger in me, what I'm, I'm relating to. is the competitiveness of like tapping into like, fuck yeah, I'll do this fucking 30 times. I don't give a shit. I can tap into that. But I need sometimes like, I don't like, and I'm sure David isn't like this, but I don't do well when I, like when someone's nagging me.

Like I just kind of quit. To use the phrase from the pickup artist. Are you talking about mystery? That's why mystery. Sorry, just a quick sidebar. Shout out to mystery. We miss you guys. Mystery.

We miss you so much. That doesn't mean that you can't find love. Obsessed with the pickup artist. She didn't love the negging, though. It does not work on me. Like when someone comes up, like, you know, like, hey, you're ugly, whatever. I'm like, okay. Like, why are you so ugly at this bar?

Whatever that. I'm not even good at pretending to do it. I just, I'm like, huh? It does not work on me. It does not work on me. But like evil, an exercise class, right? If someone's like, you're going to work super hard in here and like, you know, and I'm just like, no, I'm not. Not anymore.

Not anymore. You could have had me. You could have had all this. But when someone's like, you got here no matter what, it's 7 a.m. I'm like, fuck yeah. I'm just telling me, for me. So in any of those repetitive takes, whether it's with David or another director, do you like, do you trust when you get positive feedback? With David, I do.

Okay. I did. And he would give it? Yep. Okay, good. Okay. But what's so cool about David is that he's that, he's that dad. You know, he's that dad that, like, knows that you need that.

Uh-huh. And he'll give it to you in abundance when you've, like, when you've really shown how much you care. It's that kind of coach. Right. I love a sports coach like that. Me too. Like, like, Paul Greengrass on the film, the uprising is like that. He's like an incredible team captain.

He's just like, he's just like, we were like a football team, English football team. And he was our, he was our man. And he was so full of beautiful positive reinforcement. David would be, Fincher would be less quick with it for sure. But when you got it, it was like that you would be stoic about you would receive it and you would want to cry, but you would be like, thanks, yeah, it's cool. It was like that level of like, it meant.

so much. And the big scene with like the smashing of the laptop thing in that movie. Yes, in the social network for anyone who doesn't know

what we're talking about. Yeah, social network. And we did a lot of takes of it and I, there was like a few rounds of takes where I was like, he's gonna call it,

he's gonna call it soon, he's gonna call it. Okay, one more time, Andrew. And I'm like, okay. Oh, wow, yeah. And then on the third round of 10 or 15 takes, I didn't hear anything.

I was just like on the floor with like, I was exhausted and just like snotty and just like crying and I'm just like waiting for like and at that point you're broken in a way that's like so beautiful it's so beautiful

it's the best fucking feeling in the world I mean I guess it's the best fucking feeling in the world okay you say so and I just feel like a shadow approaching like like covering like the light that was on me just gets like kind of covered by a figure and I look at his shoes and I look up and he looks down at me he just puts his hand down and he takes my hand and he shakes my hand and he lifts me up

and he's like okay moving on and I'm like so withholding so hot I don't know you have you you have I'm sorry but you haven't sold me you haven't sold me let me tell a different story because I would have liked him at take 10 to say you're doing a great job hey babe hey babe hey babe hey babe Hey, baby, you're doing great. Hey, baby, you're doing so great. This is what I would have liked. You're doing great, but you know me. I have to do 25 more.

That's what I would have liked. Let me say one more thing about David, because I feel like I need to protect David as a father on set now. You can feel that he's proud of you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because of what you're giving. He's such a talented director. But you can feel it.

He's not withholding. It's like, it's not like you're doing a bad job. And it's not like, I'm not going to give you the banana. it's like it's like you can feel when he's he's like he's like we're going to keep going to do we'll do another one think about this think about that he's he's a tender tender guy he really really is getting back to the very beginning of what we're talking about is this idea that caring about something is like is this like very important and i'll i'll self-reveal because you're really doing it you're really you're actually like my therapist today which i don't

appreciate. I'm sorry. Which I don't appreciate. I'm honestly sorry. Okay. Um, you're my David Fincher and you're breaking me down. Um, no, but, um, but when I feel like, if I've checked out or I like feel like I am acting like I don't care about something, it really means that I've divested. And it's a bummer because it means that I've lost some kind of relationship. Sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. Sometimes you do it because you don't have anything left to give. Sometimes you do it because you don't feel like the person that you're with, I don't know, earned or deserves it. Deserved. Yes, totally, totally.

All that. But you feel like you've lost something like in that. It's heartbreaking. It is. And you are very, very, as a person, as an actor, you really invest. And it's, like, it must be. It's exhausting. It must be exhausting.

It's tough. That's why I think you need to take a break from some of these movies. I'm going to take a break. No, I am going to take a break. You're too hard. It's too hard. It's too hard being an actor. being actually

So pretending Cold, Cole, Col knows, it's very hard. Pretending to be things, pretending to be in a in a peasant's revolt.

It's hard. It's hard. Pretending to be a German magician. I go home at night and I'm like, owie. I had to pretend it was cold. It was actually hot.

So, and then. And then. And then. Wait, I do want to, I want to, okay.

What? What? What? Seriously, whatever, whatever you want to ask. Well, you know what I... Come on. I love your...

Hold on. This is an S&L skit. This is an S&L character? I'm trying to be... I'm trying to be... I'm trying to be real. Was it you in Fred Armisen? It was like they would start a sentence

and then like never finish the sentence? Yes, Fred. They played Garth and Kat. Oh, so good. I love that sketch. Sorry, Fred played a character called Nicholas Fane. Have you ever, let me ask you this. Has it ever been a, okay, say you're in summertime, it's summer, Oregon.

But there's a dog. Do you have a dog? Wait, dogs are cats. And I do it badly. And I've already told you that, or I said on that podcast, the, when he would do it, the Q cards would be blank. You hosted SNL, right? I did it once, yeah. And did you have a good time doing it?

I loved it. Yeah. I absolutely loved it. And of course, I was so scared. But again, like service. I think the best episodes are when the host supports the cast. Well, that's not always like an intuitive thing, which I understand.

But like nobody really pulls anybody aside to say like, I know this might feel weird, but you'll have the best time if you say yes to the stuff that like the cast likes and that, you know, like if you just like become an ensemble member, you know, you'll have the best time. But it's not always set up like that. But did you host it for Spider-Man? Was it during Spider-Man?

I think it was the second Spider-Man, yeah. I had Tom Holland in here. Sweet. Oh, my God. Sweetie pie. What a sweetie pie. Such a doll. A doll.

Such a talented actor. So talented. And I just have to say, I love how all of you guys, like, show up for each other, you talk about each other, you talk about your experience. So brotherhood now, which is really, really great. Like, I think, like, doing the one where we're all together really cemented some kind of weird brotherhood that was just. just beautiful. And I had known Toby a little bit before, but he was always my, you know,

my North Star with that character. Yeah. And I loved what Tom's done. And I think that was very healing for all of us to do that together to feel less alone in that very, very weird. Singular experience, like to be a part of this character's legacy that is maybe, I don't know, arguably one of, if not the most popular fictional character

in the history of like modern fiction. Really, really true. I don't know another character that is that beloved around the world. And now, you know, mother of boys, I didn't really... How old you boys? They're now 16 and almost 18. And the propitia is helping? Yeah, it's helping one.

Yeah, I insisted they get on it. Really, like, a lot of hair now. Mommy loves a good head of hair. Mommy, mommy, mommy. You know, mother won't be, mother will be disappointed. That's what I say. I wake them up and I say, has your hair. grown, mother's disappointed.

Have you seen Andrew's hair? I say, don't let mother down. That's what I say every day when I close the door. But they, but they, the way in which when that character was introducing their lives, the way they embodied him, like they, their bodies want to,

it's really why. It's so. Joseph Gamble primitive stuff. That's so interestingly put. That's really interesting. They want to get in that crouch. Yes. And they want to leap.

And it's so fun with those kinds of films where you watch people come out of the film and they're just moving like dancers to like how it's so cool. And I just want to talk about Sally Field. Oh my God. Yeah. Let's do that. Isn't she? Wow. She's so good at acting.

She's one of the best. She really is... She's maybe one of the best. You've worked with some amazing women. Fucking hell. And congratulations, you seem to really love women and everybody can tell. Thank God. Yeah, women love you and you and you can tell.

And Sally is, I don't know, I just, what was it like to work with her? What does she like to be around? She's one of the great people alive or dead for that matter. But she's so... weirdly still humble. It's a weird thing. I would say she has legend status. She's like icon legend status

as a performer, as an actor, as a person. And somehow she's retained a kind of homespun, grounded, again, in the same way that Redford made me relax. Like Sally's is someone that you just feel like you're with the best friend aunt you could ever wish for. I was thinking about this the other day, actually. I think one of the great highlights and privileges of my life

was to be able to give her a Lifetime Achievement Award of the SAG Awards a few years ago. Yeah, that was so great. I felt so lucky. I almost said no, because I just didn't think that I could handle it because it was so, it was such an honor, because she is so beloved and rightly so, and she's so beautifully extraordinary and ordinary and ordinary.

site. She honors her ordinariness in such an inspiring. I really can't believe I can even talk about her in this fashion. It's so funny you say that she's so, so, so talented. And she's probably her and Merrill, probably the two most influential actresses for me growing up. But she never felt above or below us ever. She never put herself that way. No, no, no, no. It was always just like, just her. There's a million people that would have wanted to talk to me today about you.

I know about this part of your thing. I'm nervous. I'm like, it's excited and nervous and you've got someone to come and say something. You have so many talented friends and they all love you and they all want to,

it's, you know, it is a really, you should know that it's a really nice thing when you have a guest on and there's like so many people that would want to speak well behind your back. That's crazy.

But we talked today to Lynn Manuel Marin. Oh. And he talked about the process, you know, of working with you and how, you know, when he said, you know, can you say, you know, and you're saying, you know, when are you going to make this? And he was like in a year and you were like, yes. Which is amazing. I love that. And that is now knowing a little bit more about your competitive spirit, I understand that, which is like, I can do it, coach. Yes, yes.

So true. His question was, he just spoke a little bit about how, what a good swimmer you are and how he didn't know that. And he called you the Michael Phelps of acting. Which, you know, not that big of a deal. Yeah, no. Who would that be? Me and I don't know who else. Do you swim a lot?

Do you like to swim? I still swim. You do? Yeah. Yeah. I surf now. It's translated. Yeah.

It's like my gymnastics, I was a gymnast. when I was a kid, that translated into like, you know, Spider-Man stuff. Yeah. I took all of the stuff that my dad was trying to, like, discipline me with, and I turned into something, like, a funer version of those things. Like, with swimming, it was, like, up at 5 a.m., you know, swimmers, like, they train, it's crazy. I know.

So I turn that into surfing. So, like, my paddle is pretty strong, and I can, yeah. So I, like, so I surf more than I swim. But I swim, I don't really swim, swim anymore. I'll do, like, open water swimming and swimming in the sea and, like, in ponds and like natural places. Yeah. Do you have long arms?

I don't think that's any of your business. Fine. Fine. Well, I'm not going to tell you what Lynn said. I know that your least strong sense is your vision, but you could have made an effort to just look at the arms. I'm like, do you have long arms? Okay.

Can you clear something up for me? It's just been bugging me this whole time. I'm like, let me see. Are your arms long? Are you sure they meet? Where are they in the spectrum? Come close with me. I need to smell and see if your arms.

wrong. Okay, but he said, he said, first of all, he was like, ask Andrew what, he said, The only way is like Columbo with his. Oh my God. The only way I can figure out. Oh, that's a good Peter Falk. Peter Falk, me and him have the same birthday, not to brag.

Let me smell, just one more thing. No, one more thing. Let me smell your arms. Just because the motor had to spend, particularly long swimmer's arms. I don't know. I just, not wear my glasses, but my nose is strong. So I'd like to just, ah, never mind. I'm out.

No, one more thing. This one is even smells like chlorine. You've been in the pool. Oh, shit. God, Peter Falk. You guys remember Peter Fock, right? If anyone under the age of 50, Colombo, God damn it. Love Colombo so much.

But so Lynn's question. for you was what other secret he had a two part or first was like what other secret what other secret are you good at

that we don't know yet I know he's like tell us now so a director can know but he basically was basically saying

like you know does anything feel like too much of a challenge you do a lot of you really take on a lot of challenges for the work that you do

your game yeah that's a cool question it's a question that I've been asking myself You know what I'm really scared of. Yeah?

I'm going to tell you anyway. Being a dad scares the shit out of me. It scares me so much. You're going to be so great. Don't even worry about it. Seriously. Mommy's proud of my hair. Is that what you're saying?

Mother is proud. Mother is proud. Look at all that. If you're going to be, the fact, Andrew, that you even say it. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think that would be the biggest, most important thing I ever probably do. Yeah. And I know that to be true.

It makes me want to cry thinking about it. Cry, cry, cry, cry. I love when boys cry on here. Cry, cry, cry, cry. Talk about being a dad. It's like, fuck, man. Yes. Yes, you'd be so good.

I know what it's like to be on the other end of it. Yes. You know what I mean? I've been a child. I know. It's really. I've been a son. Yes.

We've all been born from dads. And sometimes not. Right? Right. I don't know. Don't cancel us. Don't get. I'm sorry.

We're all born however we want. Fuck. Wait, but let's get back to you crying. But you're going to be such a good dad. You're going to nail. I want to do. do it. I do want to do it. And I, and I, you can sometimes feel a bit selfish with I want to be. I don't know. I don't know. So I, so I'm the, in terms of a challenge,

I can't imagine a greater, a greater challenge than I'm taking that kind of responsibility. And then there was another question about stuff I'm good at. I, sad, I'll, I'll respond in a sad way. Always. And it relates back to the body. failing. Oh my God, what are you going to say? I just grab some felt real quick. Just grab something.

Get that fell back in my hand. Let's get that touch going. Yeah. Let's do a little, yeah. I was playing basketball recently. I love basketball. And I thought, I think I'm pretty good at basketball. I have a theory about this.

I think the worst injuries happen with men in their 40s when they play basketball. It's a theory that's backed up with a lot of evidence. Go ahead. What did you do? The Colombo's sister. Colombo's sister. She comes and she's like, Colombo, let's get out of here.

And he goes, wait a minute. She's like, you said you were leaving like 10 minutes ago. Sister's like, get in the car. Jesus, you had your keys in your hand for 10 minutes. I've been waiting. in the car. Colman was like, just a second. Okay, sorry, sorry.

Okay, basketball. Let's get back on track. I was playing basketball with some friends. I was playing with Woody Harrelson. Oh, great. He's a good basketball player. I know that. Why man can't jump?

Yep. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Yeah. Why am I holding these felts like their cards in a poker game? I'm like, do you have, do you have, do you have, put everything into a game? Yeah, we're playing Uno. Do you have orange cheese?

Okay. Okay, sorry. Come on, Andrew, focus. If anyone's not watching this and just listening to it on the podcast, fuck, I'm so sorry. We're holding. We've been holding cheese burgers this whole time. I'm so sorry.

Oh, Jesus Christ. I was playing with Woody, who I love and I've been a fan of forever. And Wyman Canjump is just one of those all-time great movies. And he's just one of my all-time favorite performances of all-time. All-time, all-time, all-time. and I was so excited to play with him. And then as soon as we got on the court, I just froze. I was just like,

you got in your head. I was just like the seven-year-old of the party that just wants to go home. Oh, God, yes. Oh, God, yes. I was so scared. It was like fighter, flight or freeze. I was froze.

Yeah. I fully froze and folded. And I played really badly. I just want to apologize. And that's tough for a competitive person like you. Yeah. I froze. I was just like, I love Woody so much.

And I've been willing to play with him for so long. and it was finally our time. And he still plays great. And he's like, you know. I don't think he should. Woody, if you're listening, you're going to blow out your knee. He's taking really good care of himself. But he's fiercely competitive.

And I love it. I absolutely love it. Anyway, so a thing that I thought was a hidden talent, Lynn, turns out it's gone. And there was never maybe there. So there we have it. You made a movie that took place in 1381. And it is about a peasant uprising.

It looks badass. It looks, I saw the trailer for it and the feeling of like, whoa, this is a very political, very interesting movie to make right now. And what is it about? Yeah, it's about true events in that period of British history. It's called The Peasant's Revolt. and it was a big uprising among the ordinary folk of the British Isles that came together in an organized way. And it's told, the story is told in a way that is very unique. And it's because it's one of my favorite directors of all time, Paul Greengrass,

who people would have seen a lot of his amazing films like Captain Phillips or the Bourne series, movies with Matt Damon, or United Nations. or Bloody Sunday The News of the World with Tom Hanks some of my favorite films of all time and I've wanted to work with Paul forever and it brings up really interesting questions about revolution about violence in revolution

whether it's needed, whether it's not, how change can happen without some form of military coup like it's really a visceral story. It's so cool. It looks incredible. And it's a ride as well. It's also just like a really entertaining kind of action film. It's like a really cool movie. And it also has my scariest kind of villain, which is a boy king.

Oh, yeah, boy king, tyrant boy king. Tyrant boy king? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's nothing scary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was real. Richard, this king Richard was 14 years old.

And at that time, this is what's crazy. At that time, and it wasn't metaphorical, it was literal. The king was the messenger of God's word on the earth. So anything that the king uttered, was literally treated like it was sent from heaven above. And any equivocation of that meant you were a treasonous and traitor to the throne. So anything that this boy decides, this 14-year-old boy who is being governed a lot by these money hoarding, power hoarding, land hoarding oligarchs, was treated, was had to be, there was no question. It was just like, that's the way it is. Water is wet. You know, sky is blue. The king is God on earth.

Okay, that's that. So that level of power, it's a really interesting thing for right now. I need to finish or I need to finish. You need to go. You have like 45, but 45 other things to do today. No, this is lovely. I love it. But I want to finish by asking you the question I ask everybody, which is, what are you listening to watching, numbing out with?

I love numbing out, man. Okay, what do you, what video do you like? What movie? What video? What's your video? What's your video? Sometimes it's just a video of like a bird eating. Watch your video right now.

We're back on the first date. Now we're back in the first day. And you're like, what's your favorite video? What video? What video do you watch when you want to turn off your head? Yeah, watch the video. What video do you watch? My favorite video right now is I've been watching a lot of Roy Horn of Sigfried and Roy.

fame because I play Roy Horn in this upcoming Apple TV show and we just finished. Do you know this? I love this for you. Bro, it's really fun. You're playing Roy Horn. Yeah. So I've been watching lots of Roy Horn videos. Is that why your hair is so luscious?

Yes, yes. That's partly. But then we just end up putting wigs on of the same hair. Yeah. It's like, can I get a wig of this on this? Yeah. Great. That makes sense.

No, no, no. It does make sense. Oh my God. We're playing them through me and Jude Law. Jude law is playing Sigreed. And we're playing them through the decades, from their 20s through... Through to their 60s. It's amazing.

It's so fun. Montecore. Montecore. Man eater. It means man eater. Excuse me? The name means man eater. I did not know that.

The tiger that... There was an incident with. It was an incident. There was an accident. There was an accident. Was named Montecor, which means man eater. I cannot wait for this project. And Roy Hand raised him.

Yeah. Wow. And Roy... So I'm obsessed. And I'm still obsessed. That's a good sign that we were prepping for a year. We shot it for six months. And I'm still obsessed with Roy.

I still adore him and his spirit. Yes. So I've just been watching lots of footage of him for the last year and a half. And I continue to watch it because I just adore him. And have you handled tigers? Have you been near tigers? I have been near tigers, yes. But only in a very legal and safe way.

But I did feed a tiger by hand, which was. kind of incredible. Tigers are amazing. And I say to them, good day, sir. Yes. I say to tigers, and I, and it is nice to meet you,

and I shall take my leave. Because tigers scare the fuck out of them. Yeah. They're so... They lived with them. I know. He hit a thing in the morning. He hit a button as he woke up.

And it sent a bell into the garden, letting the tiger that he wanted know it was time to come and snuggle. The tiger came into the house, came up to the bed, jumped on bed, and they snuggled to wake Roy up. He was... Incredible. Something else, man. He was something else. Andrew Garfield. Amy Polar.

We have talked so much. This was so fun. We yapping. We yapped. We yapped. We had yapped. I knew we would. Me too. It's been a while.

I know. It's so fun to be with you. I love talking to you. I feel I were from the same planet in some regard. I feel like we're from some kind of same universe, which I love just being with you and I've always always had. I remember when I first met you, it was with Jane Aronson, Dr. Jane Aronson and the Worldwide Orphans Foundation. And I was really nervous to me because I'm just a huge fan of yours and I just think you're just so wonderful. I hadn't known many famous people at that point. And you were just like so warm and engulfing. and encouraging and caring in such a genuine way that made me feel a lot of hope for being a person in this world. And you're a beautiful, beautiful person. I really adore you. Andrew, thank you so much. You smell so good.

Everyone should know. It's my best sense, and I'm here to say. Andrew smells great, just like we thought. Andrew Garfield, everybody. Andrew Garfield, that was so fun. Oh, you're just a real silly billy. I had such a good time with you. Thank you so much for doing this.

And for this polar plunge, we talked about some great people that Andrew work with, including Sally Field. And I just wanted to remind everybody, if you're looking for a movie, a beautiful movie that's filled with heart and will make you cry, and it's all about like the spirit of a woman saving her farm,

check out a movie called Places in the Heart with Sally Field and Danny Glover and a young John Malkovich and Ed Harris and Amy Madigan and it's so, so good. Not enough people talk about this movie and is one of my favorites, Places in the Heart,

Sally Field, I love you, Andrew Garfield, we love you. Thank you so much for doing this episode and thanks everybody for listening. See you soon. You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for the... This show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Burman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite.

For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spelaine, Kaya McMullen, Alea Zanaris, Bridget Kierlings, Paige Garberini, Bell Roman, and Drew Van Steenbergin. For Paperkite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss Berman. Original music by Amy Miles.