{"id":879628,"date":"2026-10-12T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879628\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:54:10","slug":"andrew-garfield-reacts-to-artificial-oscar-buzz-at-london-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879628\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Garfield Reacts to ‘Artificial’ Oscar Buzz at London Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cArtificial<\/a>\u201d isn\u2019t hitting theaters until December, but Andrew Garfield<\/a> is already sparking Oscar buzz for his performance as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.<\/p>\n

\n\tLuca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2018s tech tale, which follows the five-day period in 2023 when Altman was fired and then rehired, earned rave reviews after its world premiere at New York Film Festival last week. Both Garfield and \u201cAnora\u201d breakout Yura Borisov \u2014 who plays Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder who ousted Altman \u2014 have now entered the awards race<\/a>, with Garfield campaigning in supporting and Borisov in lead. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to Variety on the red carpet at its London Film Festival<\/a> premiere on Sunday, Garfield \u2014 who has been Oscar-nominated twice but never won \u2014 reacted humbly to the praise. \u201cAs I\u2019m getting older, I\u2019m starting to understand that the things outside of ourselves, we just have no control over. And the only consistent thing for me is trying to make work that I feel proud of,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel really, really proud of this film \u2026 It was a really, really intense shoot. And then I\u2019m so flattered that anyone is going to see this film in the first place, let alone talk so nicely about it. That\u2019s my genuine response. I try and keep it in that perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBorisov, who was up for a supporting actor Oscar for \u201cAnora\u201d in 2024, chimed in with: \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cIt\u2019s unpredictable, I don\u2019t know what to say. I\u2019m really curious how people will feel. I\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tBesides Garfield and Borisov, \u201cArtificial\u201d also stars Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk and Mark Rylance as \u201cGodfather of AI\u201d Geoffrey Hinton. All were on hand for the London premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked about the timeliness of the movie, Garfield said: \u201cIt\u2019s here, it\u2019s now. And the timing couldn\u2019t be more exciting and important, I think, because it\u2019s about the figures that are in the news right now. Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon and all the major players that are kind of governing and holding the reins of this new technology, or occasionally losing the reins of this new technology. It\u2019s really about that.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Barbaro, \u201cI think AI is being used everywhere, in every industry. It\u2019s kind of the No. 1 conversation right now, and I think that\u2019s important to sort of question the motives of those who have created that kind of technology that has that much power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven before its debut, \u201cArtificial\u201d has been the subject of much discussion as Amazon MGM Studios dropped the film in June, shortly after Amazon invested $50 billion in OpenAI. Neon then picked it up for distribution and is mounting its awards campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with Vanity Fair<\/a> last week, Altman addressed the film for the first time and said that that he did not speak to anyone at Amazon about dropping the movie, including Jeff Bezos, and \u201cI don\u2019t know of anyone else who did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe also revealed that the movie filmed outside of his house and claimed that he waved to Garfield, who he admitted did nail his walk and \u201cquirky mannerisms.\u201d Garfield confirmed to Variety that he doesn\u2019t recall seeing Altman while filming.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI heard him say that and I was like, I would have remembered,\u201d he said. \u201cI was so aware of looking for him when we were shooting near his house and on those streets. I didn\u2019t see him and I was very, very disappointed that I didn\u2019t. It was thrilling, it was exciting and terrifying. We were right outside his house, but no, I didn\u2019t see him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tInside the Royal Festival Hall, Guadagnino introduced the film on stage alongside his cast as the crowd clapped rigorously in anticipation. Guadagnino, known for his stylistic and sexy films like \u201cCall Me by Your Name\u201d and \u201cChallengers,\u201d admitted that \u201cArtificial\u201d was \u201cthe most complicated movie to imagine because the world of the Silicon Valley is the least seductive visually.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope you will be seduced by the movie, though,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt was a lot of research, very, very deep, extensive research. It was a great journey to understand the people and the places and infrastructure, and we tried to go for the most close attention to detail as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGarfield said he found working with the director again to be \u201cirresistible\u201d after last year\u2019s \u201cAfter the Hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLuca is irresistible as a filmmaker, and Luca combined with such a juxtaposed world on its own is irresistible. Like, how is he going to make this erotic?\u201d Garfield said. \u201cYou\u2019ll see how he made it erotic. He finds the nooks and the crannies. It\u2019s really a remarkable thing to work with Luca because he\u2019s one of our radical film cinema artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGarfield also revealed that he also had an \u201cold dangling thread\u201d from \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d in which he played Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin (and had a very memorable monologue), but was originally in the running to play Mark Zuckerberg. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had auditioned for Mark Zuckerberg and some other guy got it. But I was kind of told that I was going to play Mark Zuckerberg for a few weeks, it was dangled in front of me,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I started immersing myself in Mark and then [producer] David Heyman called me to his office and said, \u2018Well, there\u2019s a better guy for it.\u2019 \u2026 But I started to imagine myself into that responsibility, leading humanity into this next chapter and what it takes to take the burden of that responsibility. What kind of personality, what kind of facets does this person have, what kind of resilience a person has to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGarfield added of Altman: \u201cI\u2019m still deeply curious about Sam, he\u2019s unfolding before our eyes as we speak and it\u2019s kind of endlessly fascinating, like AI itself I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBarinholtz brought some comedic relief by saying of playing Musk, \u201cI had never heard of him. Just not a news guy!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOn a more serious note, he said that the film required him to separate the tech mogul\u2019s present-day persona from how he was viewed when he co-founded OpenAI. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think we have the tendency to think about someone the most recently we saw them, and at that time, it was DOGE and chainsaws and kind of crazy behavior,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this story takes place long before then, it takes place at this time where he really was looked at like a god, especially amongst these Silicon Valley people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBarinholtz said Guadagnino helped get the actors into the spirit on set. \u201cEvery time Elon walked into the room, if one of the cast members was not in awe of him, Luca would come up like: \u2018This is Elon Musk! You need to be like, oh my God!’\u201d Barinholtz said, sparking laughter in the room.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the film, audience members both laughed and gasped in horror as the events of OpenAI\u2019s founding and 2023 unraveling were brought to screen. As the credits rolled, enthusiastic clapping echoed throughout the Royal Festival Hall, making it clear that \u201cArtificial\u2019s\u201d momentum would not be stopping in London.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cArtificial\u201d is set to debut in U.S. theaters on Dec. 25 and in the U.K. on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cArtificial\u201d isn\u2019t hitting theaters until December, but Andrew Garfield is already sparking Oscar buzz for his performance as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[25252,27729,236,88,56151,28465],"class_list":["post-879628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andrew-garfield","tag-artificial","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-london-film-festival","tag-luca-guadagnino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}