Andrew Garfield To Take A Break From Acting: "I Need To Just Be A Bit Ordinary For A While"

Andrew Garfield is taking a break from acting.

The 38-year-old star has confirmed he'll take a step back from his work after filming the FX limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, the adaptation of Jon Krakauer's 2003 true-crime book.

Speaking to Variety, Garfield — who has also recently starred in tick, tick...BOOM!, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and Spider-Man: No Way Home — said: "I’m going to rest for a little bit.

"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."

The Oscar-nominated actor is keen to take a step back and enjoy a normal life "for awhile". "I need to just be a bit ordinary for a while," he explained. 

Andrew revealed earlier this year that his mother's death has "rearranged" his world.

He lost his mum Lynn to pancreatic cancer in 2019, shortly before he began shooting tick, tick...BOOM!, and admits that her passing left him feeling "lonely".

He shared with UK's Channel 4 News in February: "It is very, very difficult. I think with a loss like that the world gets rearranged and I say that knowing I am not unique in that experience.

"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.

"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."

Garfield is currently starring on Under the Banner of Heaven alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sam Worthington and Denise Gough. He plays a Mormon detective investigating the brutal murder of a mother and her baby daughter by fundamentalist followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

— BANG SHOWBIZ