“I had to work very hard to reduce the number of people asking me about ‘Spider-Man,'” Andrew Garfield said at the Marrakech Film Festival, where he and Jacob Elordi are on director Luca Guadagnino’s jury. spoke.
“Of course I’m still working on it. It’s an imperfect process,” he said jokingly as he was just asked about working on the superhero series.
Garfield said he is still “grateful for that era.” [him] Maybe it will be easier to work with people like Martin Scorsese soon after that. ”
“I think Marty was able to realize a passion project with the man who starred in Spider-Man, playing a Jesuit priest in 1600s Japan. The fact that he did that is amazing,” Garfield said, referring to Scorsese’s 2016 film Silence.
Guadagnino, who opened the Marrakech Film Festival last night with a tribute to his Moroccan roots and love for the city, unexpectedly responded to Garfield’s comments about the superhero series by saying that Spider-Man is “a fascinating film.” He said that he felt like a “super hero.” ”
“I remember when Sam Raimi directed his first movie. When I was 28 or 29, I was having dreams like this because I’m kind of a megalomaniac. And That’s why I wish you’d directed Spider-Man,” Guadagnino said, looking at Garfield, who was sitting to his left. Guadagnino just directed Garfield in the thriller After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts.
Garfield also said of the production of “After the Hunt,” “Luka and I have been trying to work together for 15 years, and we finally did it this summer.” “Some of the greatest experiences of my life have been having my consciousness blown away by how other cultures create,” he said, adding, “The Japanese in ‘Silence’ He also touched on his work with actors and with Iranian director Ramin Barhani, who directed “Silence” (“99 Homes”).
Elordi also said he would like to work with an international director like Guadagnino. There were persistent rumors that he would star in Guadagnino’s new film American Psycho, but Elordi wouldn’t confirm, saying with a smile, “That’s news to me,” before nodding at Guadagnino.
“I’m going to work with filmmakers from every country in the world. Movies are this great universal language, and I barely even remember how to say hello,” Elordi said. “My dream is to work with all kinds of filmmakers, people, and kinds of films.”
This will continue in the future.