Andrew Garfield’s latest way to decompress after a long shoot is to watch the PADDINGTON movies, which are some of his favorites.
The 43-year-old says he watches a lot of “dumb things,” but that doesn’t include the PADDINGTON movies.
“They’re not dumb. They’re incredible movies!” he told PEOPLE.
In a recent podcast interview, Garfield added that he loves to unwind by staring at a beautiful tree outside his home’s window.
“It’s like the most valuable commodity outside of live performance is quiet, and time, and space, and not having our attention snatched by the things that are always snatching our attention,” he said.
The star’s most recent project, THE UPRISING, comes out on Sept. 10. The movie is set in 1381 at the time of the Peasants’ Revolt in England. Garfield plays a farmer known as Ploughman, who is fed up with the tyranny, and starts the revolt.
Garfield told Movieguide® last week, “What feels different, maybe within the Ploughman, is there’s a humility. It’s weird; it feels like he doesn’t have his own will somehow. It feels like it’s coming from elsewhere.”
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Garfield sympathizes with his character’s struggles.
“I think we’re all in that kind of struggle right now for the soul of our humanity. And I think it’s under threat with lots of corruption and lots of injustice,” he told PEOPLE.
He told The Hollywood Reporter that he hopes others relate to his character and that billionaires are disturbed by its message.
When quoted a line from the movie, “There will be no peace until we are healed,” director and writer Paul Greengrass said that is “true of today as it [was] 600 years ago, for sure.”
Garfield added, “I’m going to include the billionaires in that as well, because they’re the ones that might be the most soul sick. They’re the ones that might need the healing the most in a way.”
For him, the most exciting thing about making the movie was that it encourages hope of justice and healing.
“I think what was really interesting about those times are that people believed that justice came from God… and injustice was created by man,” Greengrass told Movieguide® last week of the movie’s element of faith. “And that really was the heart of the rebellion. People feeling that the justice they looked for was not being given to them in this world, and so they were being guided by higher forces to seek it.”
Keep an eye out for Movieguide®’s review.
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