As a teen, Andrew Garfield had some misguided notions about American culture. It started when he first got a job at an early Starbucks in England. As Starbucks was part of the vision of Americana he had in his head, Garfield thought that instead of regular barista work that he would be able to woo multiple black-rimmed eyeglass-wearing, book-reading customers, or, as he put it, “the John Hughes movie that I’ve been waiting to live within.” Surprisingly, that did not work out.
A lot of that may have come from his father, who exposed Garfield to many American films. This led to a 10-year-old Garfield watching White Men Can’t Jump much earlier than his classmates. The tale of Billy Hoyle was so dear to him that, when he first started getting work in L.A., and passed by the same basketball courts from the movie, Garfield volunteered to play a game of pick-up ball. Much like the Starbucks fantasy, this, too, didn’t go in his favor. Though now that he’s a big-time movie star, I’d say it all worked out in the end.
(Via Jimmy Kimmel Live)
