“As far as I know, I am not a gay man,” Garfield said.
The actor later clarified his sexuality, saying that he was not a gay man, but left open the possibility down the road. I am a gay man right now just without the physical act – that’s all,” he said. “My only time off during rehearsals – every Sunday I would have eight friends over and we would just watch 'Ru.' This is my life outside of this play. When asked on a panel this week how he prepared for his new character, the 33-year-old actor said that he watched every single episode of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' Garfield, known for his roles in 'The Social Network' and the 'Spider Man' reboot, currently stars in the London revival of Tony Kushner’s 'Angels in America,' where he plays Prior Walter, a gay man struggling with AIDS during the height of the 1980s epidemic. Andrew Garfield ignited a firestorm this week when he announced he was 'a gay man right now, just without the physical act,” echoing the sentiments shared by another Hollywood actor recently.
