Andrew Garfield admits he has a secret Instagram account.
“I’m as addicted as anybody. My screen time notifications are horrific to me. It’s like, I’ve given all of those hours to nothing,” he says. “It’s genuinely enraging because we don’t have as much control over these impulses as we should, and it’s been by design. It’s pretty dark when you look at it.”
His Instagram rabbit holes include “weird ceramics” and “lots of Japanese kind of craftspeople.”
Social media and technology are at the heart of Garfield’s new film, “The Magic Faraway Tree,” an adaptation of the Enid Blyton book series that is in theaters now. He and Claire Foy play Tim and Polly, a London couple who pack up their lives and their tech-dependent kids and move to a farm in the country. Their youngest child, Fran (Billie Gadsdon), doesn’t speak until she discovers a magical tree inhabited by elf-like creatures.
I spoke to Garfield talks about his busy year ahead — he also stars in the upcoming action period drama “The Uprising,” plays Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” and portrays Roy in the Siegfried & Roy TV series “Wild Things” — and what he dreams of doing when he’s not working.
