Actor Andrew Garfield says he wouldn’t rule out gay sex in the future.
In a new interview with OUT, Garfield says, “I have an openness to any impulses that may arise.”
There’s a caveat, of course.
For the past 34 years, he’s only ever been attracted to women and has never once found himself sexually attracted to a man.
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“My stance toward life, though, is that I always try to surrender to the mystery of not being in charge,” he continued. “I think most people–we’re intrinsically trying to control our experience here, and manage it, and put walls around what we are and who we are.”
“I want to know as much of the garden as possible before I pass,” he adds. “But, if I were to identify, I would identify as heterosexual.”
Last summer, the white, heterosexual, cisgender male received criticism for saying he was a gay man “just without the physical act.”
“[Watching Drag Race] is my life outside of this play,” he said during a Q&A at the National Theatre. “I am a gay man right now just without the physical act – that’s all.”
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In his interview with OUT, Garfield tries to explain what he meant by those remarks.
“I think part of what I was trying to say was about inclusion, and about that openness to my impulses,” he says.
Again, impulses that, for the past 34 years, have exclusively involved women.
JaredMacBride
The author complains that Mr. Garfield is gay baiting, but publishes this article to help him do so.
LABrad
I don’t mind giving attention to straight guys like this. This is a million times better than giving attention to a straight, homophobic, conservative (Bruce Jenner) who used gay men to support and validate his “condition” to excuse and justify his unmanly behavior.
man5996853
He’s not even gay baiting. The original comments were made into something they are not so he was forced to add a follow-up to prove that he’s open-minded and inclusive when he’s proven that a thousand times.
We don’t blow gaskets when gay men and women reveal their “straight crushes” but we accuse a guy of gay-baiting for making a very innocuous comment about his tv viewing habits.
The author, I believe, is trying to create a story that never really needed to exist in the first place.
Donston
This was mostly the fault of the interviewer not Andrew. However, saying he’s open to “any” impluse is just a wreckless thing to say. His comments about “living a ‘gay lifestyle’ without the sex” were lame and unfunny and stereotypical but didn’t deserve the controversy or hate they recieved. And now he’s over-reaching to make up for it, which is also not a good thing, because engaging in homosexual activity or being “open” to engaging in it perhaps maybe one day has nothing to do with homophobia or being inclusive.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Why do they put themselves through this? Why do “we” put them through this? So fcking undignified on both ends. Imagine finding it equally acceptable for a gay actor to be continually questioned about being turned
Donston
Some of it is driven by hetero-worship and the fludity hype. Those two things have led to a sea of people talking about how “open-minded” they are when they know they have no real romantic and sexual interests beyond a woman or man, and that has in turn led to even greater self-denial, internalized homophobia and hetero worship for gay and gay-leaning people. This obsession with being “open-minded” and “free” instead of focusing on understanding your attractions, desires, passions, romantic satisifaction, etc and becoming comfortable with that is partially what I’m getting at when I speak of the promotion of narcicism. Also, appealing to gay and gay-leaning men and getting to that pink coin equates to appealing to their carnal fantasies or at least that’s the perception.
It all just is what it is at this point.
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inbama
All this nonsense we’ve promoted about “identity” has resulted in people having no understanding of sexual orientation.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
And inevitably fakenews site Pink News’ headline predictably is: “Andrew Garfield is open to having gay sex”
That’s why this shit never works. All it does is feed the crazies who’ll label these guys “closet cases” and cowards or cynical manipulative queer-baiters and fuel their bitter hate and conspiracy theories. Anyone seen the paranoid twitter screeds from the nutcase @BeardClub
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
That should be @Beard_Club But save your neurones
happiness17
Please no more “fake news”. So sick of hearing that term. It’s a stupid term made up by our stupid president.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I don’t want to repeat what Donston and Snarkness said, I agree with both.
On a much more serious note, who’d f*ck Andrew Garfield?
Bradsman
I’d f**k Andrew Garfield! I always thought he was gay. Old saying: Scratch an Actor, you’ll find an Actress!
BCbreeze
And we are still hearing about this, WHY?
Terrycloth
OK why not hookup with James Franco ..you can be both “not gay “.together…anyway. * Yawn
OzJosh
Sadly, Garfield’s ignorant ravings about sexuality – including the underlying suggestion that homosexuality is some kind of lifestyle choice – are reflected in his one-dimensional performance as Prior in Angels in America. He reduces the character to a whiney, fey stereotype and, in doing so, drastically diminishes the impact of the play. The director is at least equally at fault, but Garfield clearly didn’t have enough life experience or intelligence to challenge the dopey choices she made.
Donston
Well, he’s spent half of his life in the entertainment industry. Everyone just fvcks everyone. Almost everyone is a headcase. And most of the gay and gay-leaning people are closeted or contend with internalized homophobia. Of course, his perspective is going to be warped. And I realized quite a while ago that Garfield is a capable but very limited actor. He still has time to improve however.
The way he speaks about sexuality is the way many closeted gay or very gay-leaning people do or out people who contend with gay shame or sexual megalomaniacs or people with a ton of contradictions within their orientation. They don’t want to confront the dynamics of their attractions, desires, arousals, sexual satisfaction, romantic instincts, romantic satisfaction, etc. So, they focus on behavior or “impulses” or identity. Of course, he could have gotten that type of garbage from ditzy queers who were trying to convince him to fvck them.
Jack Meoff
The only thing worse than straight guys gay baiting is when they do it badly. This guy is so cringe worthy.
DuMaurier
He does it badly, but he’s trying. I have mixed feelings about someone who keeps going for the right words and missing over and over again.
Glitterlust
Who’s dumb enough to buy this shit? Stop pandering to the gays with those claims
It’s insulting.