157: Andrew Garfield | Part 1
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Musicals! Slapping your Dad at Christmas! Shoplifting! It can only be the Homo Sapiens Christmas Special. First up, Hollywood superstar Andrew Garflield joins me to talk about playing the creator of the iconic LGBTQ+ musical 'Rent' in his new film Tick, Tick, Boom! Followed by your Christmas stories - and all I can say is - drama. Plus a lovely chat about why Christmas is different for LGBTQ+ people, and it's not just cos we give the best presents. Click play now for more Christmas cheer than you can shake a mince pie at. Chris x
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| 0:00.0 | Ha ha! Happy Christmas! Welcome to the Homo Sapiens Christmas Special Listeners. |
| 0:10.6 | And I'm not going to do what we've done every other Christmas. I'm not going to say |
| 0:14.4 | the Homo Homo Sapiens Christmas Special. I'm not going to do it because you do what? |
| 0:19.5 | Sometimes you've got to move on. We've got to move on with our brand. You know what I mean? |
| 0:24.3 | We've got to be fresh. We've got to be new. We've got to think of another slogan for our Christmas |
| 0:29.2 | Special. What would that be? Homo Sapiens, Reindeers, Rudolf, it's a working progress. |
| 0:39.1 | What a special episode we've got for you this week. So many things going on. We're hearing about |
| 0:43.6 | your Christmas's. How are your Christmas's? What is it like for you going home for Christmas? |
| 0:48.8 | Do you spend it with family? How do you spend it? Do you look forward to it? What's it like for |
| 0:52.5 | LGBTQ plus people to do Christmas? We've got loads of your voice notes coming up and loads of |
| 0:58.4 | really fascinating stories and your Christmas disasters. Funny ones only. Some really funny |
| 1:05.0 | bits and bobs from the lot of you. I can't wait for you to hear those. And gas this week is |
| 1:11.0 | the one and only Andrew Garfield aka Spiderman aka International Hollywood superstar. So he is |
| 1:17.9 | in a new film which portrays the life of Jonathan Larsen. If you remember, Jonathan Larsen was |
| 1:24.8 | the creator of the incredible musical Rent which is an amazing story about being sort of young, |
| 1:32.8 | queer people living as young artists in New York. And it kind of took the world by storm but it |
| 1:39.0 | is such a sad story because Jonathan Larsen, he was a massive LGBTQ plus ally. He kind of tried |
| 1:46.9 | to lift up the LGBTQ plus community. He was New York in the 80s answer to Jade Thurwall from Little |
| 1:52.8 | Mix. And he was an incredible ally and they have made a film about his life and it's called |
| 2:02.6 | Tiktok Boom and it sort of details the story of before he became this massive star. And Andrew |
| 2:10.9 | Garfield is starring in it. It's absolutely brilliant. It's a musical full of original songs and |
| 2:17.1 | Andrew is utterly brilliant and there's an incredible cast of supporting cast like Vanessa Hudgens, |
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