“I think Monica is a supremely talented actor,” Garfield, 43, said of Barbaro, 36, in a feature story Who What Wear<\/a> published on Wednesday, Sept. 9. “I think what she did as Joan Baez [in 2024’s A Complete Unknown] \u2014 what she accessed in that project \u2014 is nothing short of transformational, extraordinary and deeply mysterious.”<\/p>\n Barbaro, who received an Oscar nomination<\/a> for portraying Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic, has been romantically linked to Garfield<\/a> since February 2025, when a source told PEOPLE the actors were “spending time together quietly<\/a>” after fans spotted them at a play in London.<\/p>\n She and Garfield have not yet discussed their relationship publicly, but they have been seen at a number of public events since, and the two costar in one of this fall’s buzziest titles: Artificial<\/a>, based on real-life tech company OpenAI. Garfield portrays the company’s CEO, Sam Altman<\/a>, while Barbaro portrays OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati.<\/p>\n Monica Barbaro and Andrew Garfield at Wimbledon on July 4, 2026 The movie follows Altman during a period of days in November 2023 in which he was fired by OpenAI’s board, replaced by Murati and then rehired.<\/p>\n “I think she is truly incredible. I could wax lyrical more, but I’ll leave it there,” Garfield added to the outlet, while discussing Barbaro.<\/p>\n In recent years, Garfield has made clear that he is not interested in discussing his romantic life in public. “I’ll say it on the record: it’s not something I will ever talk about<\/a>,” he said most recently, in an interview with Esquire U.K.<\/a> published Aug. 25. “Maybe if I’m married with kids and 10 years into the relationship I might feel comfortable saying ‘my wife and my kids’. Maybe. But maybe f—ing not!”<\/p>\n Back in 2024, Garfield shared the same sentiment with the American version of Esquire<\/a>. “I have never, and I won’t ever, speak about or confirm or deny anything about my personal life with anyone, ever,” he said at that time.<\/p>\n Garfield and Barbaro costar in Artificial with Ike Barinholtz<\/a>, who plays Elon Musk<\/a> \u2014 a cofounder of OpenAI \u2014 as well as Cooper Hoffman<\/a>, Jason Schwartzman<\/a>, Mark Rylance<\/a> and Yura Borisov<\/a>, the latter of whom also plays an OpenAI cofounder and former board member Ilya Sutskever.<\/p>\n Artificial is directed by Luca Guadagnino<\/a> (After the Hunt, Challengers) and written by Simon Rich, a former Saturday Night Live writer and screenwriter who previously wrote Seth Rogen<\/a>‘s 2020 movie An American Pickle.<\/p>\n Barbaro herself spoke to her experience working with Garfield in a piece InStyle<\/a> published on Aug. 5. “I mean, he’s one of the best actors of his generation, our generation<\/a>,” she told the outlet. “I just learned a lot from his approach to the material and to developing character, and I felt very fortunate to get to witness that in real time.”<\/p>\n![\"Monica](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/0b01885e4fc699b1ddca765827ed66e5.jpg\"\/)
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