Andrew Garfield meets fan who sent raunchy tweet about him, Entertainment News
The 41-year-old actor appeared nervous during a Q+A after a screening of his drama We Live in Time at Glastonbury 2025, where he came face-to-face with the woman.
The latter was behind an infamous post on X about wanting him to "smash a laptop on [her] t***", which he had read out during an interview with BuzzFeed back in 2021.
In a video posted to Reddit, Andrew fidgeted in his chair and admitted: "I can't look at you in the eye."
After receiving "informed consent" from the fan to share how they "know" one another, Andrew explained to the audience: "I had to read a bunch of tweets about me being kind of, sexually objectified online, basically, and one of them, which got me big, was, 'I want Andrew Garfield to smash a laptop on my t***.'
"And that is in the room with us tonight."
As the audience laughed, Andrew praised the woman for coming up with "one of the more creative sex acts I can imagine."
However, he added: "I haven't imagined participating in that. I'm not — I refuse. But I'm happy to meet you, and you're very creative — and sick. You're sick."
During the BuzzFeed segment, Andrew read out thirst posts shared on Twitter, which is now known as X.
The messages included, "I'd let him eat crackers in bed" and "Andrew Garfield is literally the daddy of all daddies", and the Social Network star blushed and couldn't stop laughing as he read out. "I want Andrew Garfield to smash a laptop on my t***."
Hiding his face in his hands, he exclaimed: "I'm not gonna do that, I draw the line. Nope! This is a pro tip, and also, like, boundaries — if anyone says, 'I wanna smash a laptop on your breasts,' just say, 'Get out of my house.' "
Earlier this year, the Never Let Me Go actor revealed his "guilty pleasure" is Netflix's reality series Too Hot to Handle.
He said: "F*** it's really good. [It has] a bunch of hot people who think they're going on a Love Island-type show. In the first interviews they're all like, 'Yeah, I can't wait to get railed like every day' and then the guys are like, 'Yeah, I can't wait to rail women every day.' They're just horny, hot people."
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