He sees himself as this liberator, he's fully deluded in this self-assessment. I think Sam sees himself as a Travis Bickle. I thought, well, I love The Goonies, and I love David Lynch, and I love Los Angeles.Īlso I loved it because it was quite skewering of Hollywood and a kind of patriarchal abusive system. And I read it and I just thought, this is totally marvellous and totally unique, and as I'm sure you hear all the time and that you feel as a film journalist, it's very, very rare that you get a unique piece of cinema in this day and age. But now he's in a David Lynch film that's set in a Los Angeles that's like the antithesis of the La La Land Los Angeles. It was 160-odd pages, which is about 30 or 40 pages more than the usual script, and it was like- I like describing, it's as if Sean Astin's character, Mikey, from The Goonies is far too old to still be going on adventures, but he still wants to. I got sent the script for Under The Silver Lake and it was as mind-bending in word, as it was, in deed, as it were. I was just so impressed with him as a filmmaker. And then of course It Follows was just this kind of genre reinvention, in the horror genre. I'd seen It Follows and I loved it, and I had seen The Myth Of The American Sleepover and I thought it was so unique and specific in its vision. What was David Robert Mitchell's pitch to you?ĪNDREW GARFIELD: He didn't really have to pitch it to me. Sam is a pop culture obsessed guy on this weird journey into. Listen to the interview here, and read the full conversation below.ĮMPIRE: Under The Silver Lake is an absolute trip of a film. He stopped by the Empire Podcast to talk all things silvery and lake-like, as well as divulging his personal pop culture obsessions and reflecting on his hugely impressive filmography. And in his latest role, Andrew Garfield is Sam, a pop culture obsessed slacker on a down-the-rabbit-hole neo-noir quest in David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake. He’s been a Portuguese missionary in 17th century Japan.
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