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Andrew Garfield & Dakota Johnson Reunite After 11 Years

It's been eleven years since Andrew Garfield and Dakota Johnson starred in David Fincher's and Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Network.' Dakota and Andrew reunite to discuss everything from filming with Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake to working with Lin Manuel-Miranda and Maggie Gyllenhaal in their latest films 'The Lost Daughter' and 'Tick, Tick... Boom!' Read more about their reunion: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/01/dakota-johnson-and-andrew-garfield-on-the-social-network-lost-daughter

Released on 01/18/2022

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Hi, welcome. Hi.

How was the right side of the void over there?

Welcome like this is your house?

Welcome to my void.

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You're very poised almost awkwardly.

I'm ready.

When did we first meet?

Do you remember when we actually first met?

Yeah.

'Cause we didn't have any scenes together obviously

in that film, The Social Network.

You and Jessie were so busy on that movie

and I was obviously in for four seconds

and I remember having, sitting down with you guys

when you were having lunch one day

and you asked me loads of questions

Did I? And you were really nice.

Was I? Yeah.

Everything's shifted. And Jesse didn't

acknowledge me.

He was probably in character.

He was probably overwhelmed by-

My beauty.

By your beauty, yes. Yeah.

I was your only friend.

You had one friend.

But then I remember seeing you at a party,

I think it was at the Oscars or something.

You were just so lovely and energetic

and kind of excited to connect.

I think that's

the first time that we- Wow, I didn't remember that.

I can't believe you remember that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was sober.

There's no insinuation.

It feels like there was.

There's no implication that I'm making.

That was when like Mark Townsend

who's here and does my hair

used to put pieces of hair in my hair,

you know to make it look full

and at those parties, I'd probably get a little drunk

and then just like take them out

and put them in people's pockets,

like men's jacket pockets

'cause they're so annoying and it just

like find a place to put them.

Why men's jacket pockets?

'Cause they're so available.

Oh, okay rather than like doing some kind weird

kind of thing of like,

I'm gonna get him in trouble with his lady friend later,

who's hair is this?

No, it would be like, Can you hold this for me?

I'll get it later.

And then I'd forget.

Oh okay so people would wake up with your non-hair-

My fake hair-

Your fake hair in their pockets.

Yeah.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Am I right in thinking

that Social Network was your first film?

Yes.

That's crazy.

Did you come in nervous

or did you come in kind of just open?

No, I was so nervous.

You know like before you shoot anything,

I like don't sleep and you kind of

like that hollow, nervous, shaky feeling.

It was the best.

So funny, so this is a weird story

and I probably shouldn't say this.

Say it.

I was accidentally brought into Justin's,

Justin Timberlake of stage, screen and pop star fame,

I was brought into his trailer accidentally and I was like,

This isn't my trailer.

And I saw some of his homework,

like a board with like cue cards and like some of his

like internal choices and substitutions.

And you were like,

oh no, I should leave, but you didn't,

you read all of it.

I was like, oh I must leave

and as I leave I must let my eyes linger

for as long as possible as I leave

because of course because it's like,

it's just there.

And thank God it wasn't anything bad,

it was only kind of cool. That is fucked up.

I know, I'm a really bad person actually in retrospect.

I can't believe you did that.

There was one thing I was like, oh, that's so cool,

like what an amazing moment that I get to like,

'cause I admire Justin so much

as a pop star and as like a musician and a dancer

and just like a creative person.

I'm just so fascinated

by all actor's processes. Yeah, that's so normal

and human.

Yeah, thank you.

Gone on a roller coaster you just took me on.

You shamed me and then you were excited for me

and now you've accepted my humanity.

I'm a woman.

Yeah, you are.

I've just realized something in real time.

Did you realize it at the same time?

I think maybe I did.

Is it that we both-

Worked with people who are

Directing us

And are also

[Both] Performers.

That's so weird. Creepy.

Spooky. So weird.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's right

'cause of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lin-Manuel-

Miranda, that's his name.

I had a year to learn how to sing

and to learn piano and to get the choreography down

and to study John,

to really get into,

immerse myself in this amazing man.

The amount of people that want to keep his spirit alive

enable us to get all of the information

and all of the subjective experiences

that people had with him.

It was, I loved that.

Have you done that before?

Have you played someone real that has,

what was that?

I did a film called Our Friend

and I played a woman

who lived in this really small town in Alabama

and we shot the movie in the town and everyone knew her

and like every single shop owner and restaurant

and they'd say she sat here and she would order this.

She was a special woman.

Yeah, she was just like a sparkle.

We were all messed up, you saw us.

There's something about Maggie,

who is like a real truth-seeking actor

and now a real truth-seeking director

who knows what it feels like to be an actor acting,

especially a woman,

especially like on a beach in a bathing suit

and doing like dark things

and thinking and feeling dark things.

She created a really safe place.

That's not something that can be artificial.

It comes from like being genuinely loved

and genuinely seen by your director,

which I think is so rare.

And it comes from genuine experience as well,

like proper bone deep empathy and care

which is the greatest gift.

Gosh, I want to work with her.

[Maggie] You should.

And same with Lin.

I don't think he'll ever want to work with me.

Why do you say that?

I get really nervous singing in front of people.

I was the same, but like you just start peeling the onion

and you get through it.

I don't want peel the onion.

I don't want to peel the onion.

I don't want to be an onion.

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This is maybe more personal question,

but like how you have to have such good boundaries

in your life and with an audience

in order to carry on being naked on screen,

whether it's literal or otherwise,

like that is such a,

I know it's something that I think about all the time

to keep myself sacred,

to keep my life sacred so that I can feel free

to go on and carry on giving myself to my work.

Well, it takes a lot to be private now,

like so much effort every day.

You don't do certain things or go certain places.

Someone would say, Hey, are you the guy from the thing?

I'm like, No, I look like him

and then we can have an actual conversation.

But then sometimes I'm very just like,

Yeah, I am

and I'm gonna disappoint you now.

You know what I mean?

Why do you feel like you would disappoint them?

Well because I think about me and Tom Hanks.

Right, me too, I think

about you and Tom Hanks. You think about me

and Tom Hanks?

All the time.

But it's the thing of like

I know that Tom Hanks is just a person,

but to me, he is my- He's the ultimate hero.

Have you ever met him?

I have and he didn't disappoint.

No, he doesn't.

But quite the contrary, I would.

Not in a self-flagellating way.

It's more just like I give myself permission

to be ordinary, to be a person.

But don't you think that that would make people

feel that you're more grounded and more of a human?

A lot of the time it does do that.

If someone's open to me being a person,

we have a lovely conversation,

but then are some people that don't want that.

They want you to start climbing up the walls?

They want the Mickey Mouse, they want the kind of that.

Yeah, exactly.

Do you ever feel bad

when you lie to someone that you're not who you are?

Never.

Never, you don't ever feel guilty being like,

Oh, I should have just said, yeah, that's who I am.?

No, never.

If someone's like, Hey, are you Andrew Garfield?

And I can tell by the way,

the energy with which they're asking-

That they care?

If I am the Andrew Garfield that they're looking for

or if they're actually asking if I'm me.

Does that make sense?

Like, I'm me and then there's this thing Andrew Garfield

that people can get agitated about

or kind of like excited about.

And if they're asking in that way, I'm like,

No, I'm not that.

So actually I don't feel like I'm lying.

But if someone comes up to me

and I can feel that they're just gonna ask me

about something I've done or like say thank you

for a film that they liked,

if it's like, Hey, are you Andrew Garfield?,

I'll be like, Yes

and then they'll be like, Hey, I liked that gate.

As if I was a blacksmith in the village

and it's like, Hey, are you the blacksmith?,

if it's that energy,

I'm like, Yeah, I'm the blacksmith.

And then they're like,

Hey, I really liked that gate

that you made on the edge of town.

It's got a nice hinge, it doesn't squeak, it's good upkeep.

Great gate.

Thank you for that gate.

I'm like, That's made my day

because I put a lot of work into that gate

and I like it too so thanks, man.

Do you ever lie and say, No, I'm not Andrew Garfield.?

No, usually I say, Yes, I am Andrew Garfield.

and then they're like, Wow.

Do you ever get the people that go like,

Hey,

What do I know you from?

What do I know you from?

And you're like, I don't know.

Here's my CV.

Well, what have you been in?

And you're like, What am I gonna pull up my iMDB page,

like list movies I've done

so that you can feel better?

It's so interesting.

People are so interesting.

I think we did okay.

You feel okay about it?

Yeah.

Okay good.

Bye.

[Dakota] Bye.

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