“Then suddenly someone wanted to pay me lots of money to go to this glamorous place abroad and brandish a crisp,” he recalls, over tea in a West End hotel. But then his ship came in – a part in a Doritos advert, which was about to shoot in Spain, and paid £2,500 for two days’ work.īack then, Garfield was renting a room in “a mouse-infested flat” in north-west London, and making ends meet behind the Starbucks counter in a nearby branch of Sainsbury’s.
He was 21, and had only appeared in a handful of small plays since leaving drama school. It was the proudest gig to date of Andrew Garfield’s career: standing on top of a bin in central Madrid while playing air guitar with a tortilla chip.
