Andrew Garfield’s mother died of cancer in 2019. The actor explains in an interview what realization was healing for him – and that he is returning to the screen.
For “Spider-Man” star Andrew Garfield, filming his latest film helped him cope with the loss of his mother. Since her death, he has also become aware of the loss of other living beings. “In dealing with my grief, one of the most healing and calming moments I’ve experienced was the realization that this has been going on since time immemorial,” the 41-year-old told US magazine The Hollywood Reporter. His mother died of cancer in 2019.
The experience of losing a loved one is universal, “while still being very, very real and uniquely extraordinary for the individual,” explained the Golden Globe winner. “Of course there have been so many moments in the last five years where I said, ‘She shouldn’t have died.’ “My mother shouldn’t have died so young, and she shouldn’t have died suffering.”
This way of thinking was very human, but arrogant and selfish of him, Garfield said. When he turns to “the sea, the moon or the forest” with his worries, they remind him that “every living thing on this earth” is losing its mother.
Garfield’s new film “We Live in Time” is, among other things, about letting go and dealing with a cancer diagnosis. The romance, which he plays alongside Florence Pugh, will be released in German cinemas in January.
Source: Stern
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