Andrew Garfield confessed a couple months ago that his mother passed away after a long battle with cancer, the sad news shocked the most detail-oriented fans who noticed that her death might have happened around December of 2019, just a couple weeks before the filming of “Tick Tick… Boom!” started.
Andrew received excellent critics for his role as Jonathan Larson, the late musical creator of RENT, on his last movie “Tick Tick… Boom!”. In the early stages, the movie had a bittersweetness for the actor. He had to endure the role after his mother, Lynn Garfield, passed away.
The well-known actor starred as a guest in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and revealed that, even after all that, he holds a special grip to that movie in his heart. In between tears, he expressed the following:
“I love talking about her, by the way, so I cry, it’s beautiful.”
That was part of the response from the actor when the host asked him how did his mother’s passing aways affect his acting, since it happened just before the filming started.
“(Crying) is all the love that is not expressed, the pain that will stay with us till our death because we never have enough time with the ones we love, right? It doesn’t matter if somebody lives till their 60, 15 or 99 years. So, I hope this pain stays with me because it’s all the love I couldn’t show her. And I told her every day. We all told her every day that she was the best with us.” Garfield continued.
“This movie has something to do with it. It has to do with this clock we all have. We all know deep down that life is sacred, life is short, and we better stay here for as long as we can, holding each other”, he said.
The actor also expressed his deep gratitude to the staff of “Tick Tick Boom!”, since he considers that filming this movie was part of the therapy to overcome his mother’s death.
“I’m in debt with everyone that has brough me here so that I can honor the most beautiful person I have ever met through my art and use it as a way of healing, to seal the wounds” he said.
It has been through this interview that his fans have remembered this moment and have conclude that his mother never got to see him return as The Amazing Spiderman in the movie “Spiderman: No Way Home”, something that has made them feel sad and moved about it.
Just recently, Garfield revealed that he only spoke to three people about his appearance in No Wat Home, those were his father, his mother, and his brother.
“Mi mom, mi dad and my brother were the only people I told that I was returning to the Spiderman role, just weeks before my mother’s passing. I’ve lost people before, but my mother was different. It’s the fact that the one person that bought you to life if no longer here, nothing prepares you for that cataclysm.”
