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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Andrew Garfield says The Amazing Spider-Man left him heartbroken. The 33-year-old actor admitted in a Variety "Actors on Actors" interview with Amy Adams that he thought the 2012 movie and its sequel "compromised" the integrity of the characters.
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"Those are the two big, big-budget films I've done and it was its own thing. I'm loathe to judge that experience and kind of paint that as a whole. There were great things about it -- I got to work with incredible actors and a really great director -- and there were really [tricky things]," Garfield told Adams.
"I was 25, 26, and I felt young, in retrospect," he explained. "There's something about being that young, in that kind of machinery, that I think is very dangerous. I wasn't a teenager, but I was still young enough to struggle with the value system of corporate America. It's really a corporate enterprise."
"There's something that happened with that experience for me where story and character were actually not top of the priority list, ultimately, and I found that really, really tricky. I signed up to serve the story and to serve this incredible character that I'd been dressing as since I was 3. And then it gets compromised and it breaks my heart. I got heartbroken a little bit," the star admitted.
The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) earned a combined $1.47 billion at the box office. Garfield had shared similar sentiments about the corporate nature of franchises in a 2015 interview with the Independent.
"Hollywood is the epicenter of worldly values where a piece of art is judged, not on how many lives it touches or what change it makes, but as long as that film makes money. Only then is it a success," he said.
English actor Tom Holland, 20, will take over as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in the forthcoming reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming, which opens July 7, 2017. Garfield, meanwhile, will next star in Silence with Adam Driver.
