Andrew Garfield reacted to a rumor alleging that the 2016 movie La La Land starring Ryan Gosling and ex Emma Stone is astir his narration with the actress.
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The City of Stars is not shining conscionable for Andrew Garfield.
The We Live In Time prima precocious reacted to a rumor that La La Land, written and directed by Damien Chazelle, was inspired by his former narration with Emma Stone.
“I conjecture radical request thing to believe,” Andrew—who began dating Emma soon aft filming The Amazing Spider-Man with her successful 2010 earlier breaking up successful 2015—told Esquire successful a illustration published Oct. 2. “I person never, and I won’t ever, talk astir oregon corroborate oregon contradict thing astir my idiosyncratic beingness with anyone, ever.”
And portion Andrew wasn’t astir to divulge if he was 1 of the fools who dreamed, Chazelle—who formulated the publication with the film’s composer and Harvard classmate Justin Hurwitz for a elder thesis project—has antecedently fixed penetration into wherever inspiration for the movie starring Emma and Ryan Gosling came from.
Sadly for fans of Andrew and Emma’s romanticist history, it has thing to bash with the erstwhile flames.
“The movie is not based connected anything,” Damien explained to the Hollywood Reporter successful 2016. “There is thing precise poetic astir a metropolis that is built by radical with these unrealistic dreams, and they conscionable enactment it each connected the enactment for that.”
As for wherever the theories of La La Land in narration to Emma and Andrew’s narration travel from? After the movie came retired successful 2016—and saw Emma nab her archetypal Oscar for Best Actress astatine the 89th Academy Awards—many fans saw the parallels betwixt Seb (Ryan) and Mia (Emma)’s emotion communicative successful La La Land and the existent beingness romance that played retired betwixt the Spider-Man costars.
“Those 2 are conscionable Seb and Mia,” a 2017 essay successful Refinery29 suggested. “They are some artists destined for each other, but taking a interruption to get down to the concern of becoming large stars. Sure, they're not unneurotic now, but their emotion is true. Who knows what volition happen?”
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What has happened betwixt Andrew and Emma since La La Land came retired does, astatine least, parallel Seb and Mia—in that they person not ended up together. Andrew, for his part, has been rumored to beryllium dating Dr. Kate Tomas since April. Meanwhile, Emma confirmed she had tied the knot with hubby Dave McCary successful 2020, and the mates welcomed their 3-year-old girl Louise a twelvemonth later.
Still, the duo person proven they’ve remained affable since their split—and adjacent support successful touch. When Andrew joined chap erstwhile Spider-Man Tobey Maguire successful a astonishment quality successful the Tom Holland-led Spider-Man: No Way Home, helium revealed Emma was 1 of the galore begging for clues astir the then-rumored appearance.
“Emma kept connected texting me,” helium said connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast successful 2022. “She was like, ‘Are you successful this caller Spider-Man film?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t cognize what you’re talking about!’ She was like, ‘Shut up, conscionable archer me,’ And like, I honestly. I kept it going, adjacent with her, it’s hilarious. And past she saw it and was like, ‘You’re a jerk!’”
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