Over the decades, Andrew Garfield has been able to work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, and there’s one screen icon who definitely left a lasting impression.
Back in 2007, the future Oscar nominee made his movie debut in the war drama Lions For Lambs, which boasted an A-list cast including Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and Robert Redford.
Asked about working with Robert – who died in 2025, at the age of 89 – during the latest episode of Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang, Andrew remembered him as a “beautiful, beautiful man”, even if he was “very late all the time to everything”.
“I say it with love,” he insisted, recalling how on his first day on set he was “terrified and nervous and pinching myself”, only for his A-list co-star to be “four hours late”.
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“By that time, I’m just pissed. I’m just angry,” he joked, before clarifying: “No, I wasn’t really. But a lot of the nerves had dissipated because he was so loose and causal and so cool.”
Andrew added: “He wasn’t aware that he was late. He was just on his own Redford time.”
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“He was famously late. I’m not telling tales out of school. He was a famously late person,” Andrew then claimed.
“But God is fair. He’s so handsome – there’s got to be something wrong with him,” Amy then quipped.
Lions For Lambs was met with a muted response upon its release in the mid-2000s, boasting an unenviable Rotten Tomatoes score of just 28%.
The film – which Robert Redford directed, as well as starring in – centred around two army rangers who were injured during a mission in Afghanistan, and a journalist’s subsequent attempt to bring a conspiracy surrounding it to light.
Andrew is currently on the promo trail for his new movie The Uprising, which depicts the so-called Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, with the British actor portraying a Robin Hood-like figure.
