“It’s important to a community that I feel so welcomed by.” “My only longing is to serve and to keep the world spinning forward for the LGBTQ community in whatever way I’m meant to.” We were talking about, ‘How do you prepare for something so important and so big?’ and I was basically saying, ‘I dive in as fully as I possibly can.'” “It’s a love letter to the LGBTQ community. “That discussion was about this play and how deeply grateful I am that I get to work on something so profound. “That’s of course not what I meant at all.' To offset this, Garfield recently talked to BBC’s Newsbeat to defend himself and say that news sites were missing the point of what he said and twisting his words to fit their sensationalism. Ive been studying my whole life, can I have that role? Andrew Garfield watched Rupauls Drag Race to study for an upcoming role as a gay man.