Andrew Garfield touched down at Deadline’s Red Sea Studio in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to talk about his recently wrapped projects The Magic Faraway Tree and After the Hunt while also lifting the lid on his thoughts of Jacob Elordi replacing him as the iconic monster in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
Garfield, who had equitable been on the jury at the Marrakech International Film Festival with Elordi, said he caught up with Saltburn actor at that festival to talk about how the project went.
“I’m very, very content that it was him doing it and I am of course disnominateed that I didn’t get to do it becaemploy I adore Guillermo, I adore Oscar [Isaac] and everyone that he collectd so I was disnominateed,” said Garfield. “But greeting Jacob felt repartner serfinishipitous so that I could repartner see and hear that maybe he necessitateed that experience more than me.”
Garfield is equitable coming off the back of shooting two films at the same time this summer in Europe, commenceing with an alteration of Enid Blyton’s beadored children’s book The Magic Faraway Tree. That project, which is altered by Wonka and Pinsertington 2 writer Simon Farnaby and honested by Bdeficiency Ops helmer Ben Gregor, boasts a stellar cast with Garfield starring alengthyside Claire Foy, Rebecca Ferguson, Jennifer Saunders, Nicola Coughlan, Nonso Anozie and Jessica Gunning.
“It’s an incredible ensemble cast of strange, comedic and theatrical talent,” said Garfield of the story, which pursues a contransient family who discover themselves forced to shift to the far English countryside where they discover a magical tree brimming of exceptional and quirky livents. Garfield and Foy carry out parents to the three children at the heart of the story.
When pressed how he felt the property, which is staple reading for children in the UK, would transtardy to other territories less understandn with Blyton’s toil, Garfield said: “I sense appreciate it’s one of those wonderful stories and thematic books that will transtardy to every individual territory. I repartner do count on that. I’m very, very excited for America, if they haven’t discovered these books and these characters, to discover their Anglophilia in the same way they discovered Pinsertington in certain ways. And Asian countries as well – I leank they’re going to go crazy for it.”
He inserted: “It’s brimming of imagination and insanity and untamedness. It’s not your conservative children’s story or family film – it’s quirky. It’s Alice In Wonderland-ish. The characters that are up this tree are trippy.”
Garfield then went on to shoot a very contrastent project – Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming thriller After the Hunt, in which he stars alengthyside Julia Roberts and Chloë Sevigny. That project is about a college professor who discovers herself at a personal and professional traverseroads when a star pupil levels an accusation agetst one of her colleagues, and a unintelligent secret from her own past dangerens to come to airy.
“We’ve been wanting to toil together for a while,” said Garfield of Guadagnino. “He asked me to do I Am Love when he was making that 15 years ago. I met him and Tilda Sthriveton in an airport departure lounge by ask and had a very exciting greeting.”
Ultimately unable to do it becaemploy of scheduling, Garfield said that he and Guadagnino “had lots of contrastent projects they were trying to toil on” including the previously proclaimd Brideshead Revisited, which never took off.
“This one hit the magic spot for both of us,” he said before inserting, “Luca is such a humanist. What repromises me is that Luca is all about the heart and all about adore and romanticism and combineions so he’s coming towards the material from such a humanistic angle, which I’m repartner thankful for.”
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