Speaking to a full house at AFI Fest's Los Angeles Times' Young Hollywood roundtable, the star of the Marc Webb-directed
Spider-Man reboot, Andrew Garfield considers himself his own biggest critic, and acknowledges how drastically different portraying the Web-Slinger will be including expectations.
"Ironically, I'm going to be the person in the audience going, 'Sh#t! Why did they cast this English fool?' " "I see it like 'Hamlet' or any Shakespeare play. Every actor is going to play King Lear differently because every actor is a different person."
"I think it's going to be really weird. I don't know what to expect at all," he said. "It'll definitely be a different way of working and my approach isn't going to change. I'm just going to approach it like I'm doing a short film of Spider-Man that my friend is directing. It's kind of how I have to approach it or I'll lose my mind."
"I'll let you know next year," he said later. "The idea of stepping into a room and trying to convince someone that you're worth hiring is counterintuitive," he continued, saying later that "putting yourself in the correct room and meeting the correct person are all those things that feel so crass to do but somehow you find yourself in those rooms."
"It's impossible when you watch [yourself onscreen] because all of us know when you record your voice into a cassette player and you play it back, you cringe because you don't sound like that," Garfield explained.
Garfield went on half-jokingly, "Magnify that a hundred-fold and it's your face and it's your eyes and it's your stupid eyebrows & your stupid personality." And then revealed that he has yet to see
Never Let Me Go, which is one of his latest films, that hit theaters back in September.
Anyhow, production for the Marc-Webb directed reboot is set to kick off next month. And starring alongside Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field,
Spider-Man is scheduled for theaters July 3, 2012 in 3D!